Would you go to Woolwich in southeast London to have Helena Bonham Carter murmur a "gothic bedtime yarn" in your ear? That's basically what's on offer at immersive theatre company Punchdrunk's latest show, "Viola's Room".
Small groups of "barefoot punters" are led through an otherworldly "labyrinth of corridors and antechambers", said Nick Curtis in the London Evening Standard, as the actor's "honeyed voice" pours through headphones, narrating the story of an orphaned princess, Viola.
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