The Home Sweet Home: London

We arrive back in central London after touring the UK’s most beautiful independent cinemas, to manifest Strange Factories for one final performance at the Cinema Museum, London on 13th November. 

This night will be a unique celebration of what carnival and circus folk call the Home Sweet Home: the final show of the season. After the haunting, you will be invited to mingle with ghosts of the silver screen at the after party.

Presented as a reimagined live performance, our new tour dates explore a different aspect of the story, exposing the myth of Stronheim from a new perspective. So if you visited the settlement in 2013, and are already a member of the Imaginari we have further secrets to share. 

There will only be a very limited number of tickets available for this one off event- we hope to see you there!

FoolishPeople and Cinema Museum, London present 'Strange Factories', an immersive, theatrical and cinematic journey. You are invited to join the Society of Imaginari to watch the secret footage, witness the film unravel and lose yourself in the madness of haunted cinema.

The film explores the visions, obsessions and powers of the creative urge and takes inspiration from the earliest traditions of cinema and film in the touring traditions of Phastasmagoria and Theatre Arcana. Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, Strange Factories places the audience at the heart of a haunted feature film.

Not in London?

We still have two tour dates left in Oxford and Wales.

The Society of Imaginari visit the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford next Friday 17th October, and will haunt the Magic Lantern Cinema in Tywyn for a Halloween special on 1st November. 

Reviews & Press

“Immersive theatre pioneers, FoolishPeople have manifested a live cinema production that takes you deep into the heart of a horror film, albeit a surreal one…immersive theatre at its best.” Sarah Stewart, The Londonist

"This film not only frightens, but also inspires—neither of which are very easy to accomplish...Filmed in black and white, with long pauses between Shakespearian-esque soliloquies, STRANGE FACTORIES may not be for the more literal-minded of horror fans. But fans of the theatrical side of performances, the technical side of writing, and the appreciators of the surreal and offbeat will find a lot of things to appreciate with STRANGE FACTORIES.” Ambush Bug, Ain’t It Cool News

“The production itself fuses the haunting, authentic dreamworlds of David Lynch and the theatrical philosophies of Antonin Artaud, who believed in the Theater of Cruelty, using stagecraft to create a vivid and disturbing reality to powerfully draw in the audience.” Nick Dawson, Filmmaker Magazine

"I found the entire night an inspiring and beautiful experience from start to finish…It was fitting that a night celebrating the early days of the moving image should be so truly magical.” Neil McComb, the Alt Entertainer

“FoolishPeople's immersive theatrical experience propels visitors into the dark and disturbing world of a haunted cinema where the doomed characters come to life with devastating consequences.” — Evening Standard

“Strange Factories, an immersive, theatrical and cinematic tour de force.” — British Airways, Things to do in London, What's Hot, October 2013

“Strange Factories was inspired by the theatrical acts which paved the way for the first horror films, such as phantasmagoria. Foolish People's artistic director, John Harrigan, explained to Wired.co.uk: "Art, entertainment and cinema need to be willing to rethink how stories are told to compete with waning attention spans. We hope to create a form of storytelling that revitalises cinema and makes our audience feel truly special and alive." Alice Vincent, Wired

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