Punchdrunk's Felix Barratt on the compelling pioneer's greatest hits: 'Always change the rules as you go'

Punchdrunk's Felix Barratt on the compelling pioneer's greatest hits: 'Always change the rules as you go'

Felix Barratt is Artistic Director of Punchdrunk, the pioneering theater company that has taken immersive theater mainstream with a series of critically acclaimed shows for over twenty years. Here he talks about the company's most important shows…

Battersea Arts Center (2007)

Stephen Dobbie

We had done some big shows in huge abandoned spaces. Faust had been in an old sorting office in Wapping and we gratefully had the support of the National. I think Tom Morris introduced us to his old stomping grounds at Battersea Arts Center and said that the next radical thing we could do, rather than taking over a disused space, would be to reinvent a workspace are.