REVIEW: ABSURD CITY
Wake the Tiger's Parallel World is London's Wildest New Immersive Experience
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. You need to leap down the portal to London’s most exciting (and Europe’s largest) new immersive art experience, Absurd City.
Wake the Tiger’s deliciously bonkers, parallel world explodes across 80,000 square feet, with five extraordinary districts, brimming with hundreds of mind-blowing experiences to explore.
It’s just as exciting for grown-ups as it is for kids - one minute you’re crawling through secret passages, or opening toy-filled wardrobe doors into new worlds, and the next, you’re discovering ducks in toilets, giant bananas, and sweet shops where even the staff are made from candy.
The self-guided experience invites you to touch and explore everything - there are surprises everywhere.
Each district is wildly different. Bloom Street is a hyperactive shopping precinct brimming with crazy shops, a Stock Exchange, eyeball poppingly surreal Pharaceuticals and a real bus, which acts as a portal to the next district.
Reclamia is ingeniously built from the waste created by the mass consumerism of Bloom Street.
Imaginopolis - our favourite district - is a kaledoscope of colour, brimming with joy, giant blinking eyeballs and even a working theatre.
Neon / Nexis is a punky, futuristic world of biohackers, cybernetics and a real aeroplane full of crazy mushroom experiments. And Elite HQ is a hilariously corporate, luxury haven for the city’s wealthy citizens.
You don’t need to follow the plot or engage with the actors to love it - but it involves a futuristic city under a giant dome, powered by an enormous generator, which we discover in the grand finale.
Our job is to help the resistance movement defeat the capitalism-loving Elite from burning out the generator, while having the best possible fun across three hours. Spoiler - we succeed.
Vive la Résistance… and Vive Absurd City
Absurd City, Westfield London (former KidZania space), W12 7SL. Tickets from £22.95/adult, £16.95/child
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