Why are people flocking to take part in a flight crash simulator?

UK group Darkfield’s latest plane crash immersion is terrifying Melbourne. There is something very 2019 about paying a dollar a minute to experience a disaster

I’m locked inside a shipping container next to Melbourne’s Yarra River and I’m thinking about plummeting into the Pacific Ocean. It’s a beautiful day outside but it’s pitch black inside this steel box. Metal is screeching overhead as a flight attendant softly tells me I’m going to die.

This is Flight, the latest immersive theatre work/public panic attack from UK group Darkfield. Audiences are strapped into 20 or so seats from a decommissioned plane and experience the work through binaural headphones in the dark. Over the course of 30 minutes you live through two surreal and intersecting realities: one where the plane lands and another that’s not so lucky.

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