Immersive Theatre 'The Night of the Werewolves Live' Engages Audience in Traitors-Style Game

In Hull, Silent Uproar's production 'The Night of the Werewolves Live' turns theatregoers into participants in a game based on Mafia (the inspiration for BBC's The Traitors). The show, rated 18+, encourages bawdy humour. Host Alex Mitchell begins by discussing consent and setting rules. Each audience member receives a character card (innkeeper, butcher, chandler, brothel owner) and names it. The reviewer was 'Chanandler Bong' (candlestick maker).

Mitchell becomes The Professor; the premise is that the audience are amateur historians who have hired him to tell the tale of bloody nights in a village 400 years ago. The village is named by suggesting a bodily fluid and a verb (resulting in 'Pissbubbleton'), and the river by a sexual position ('Doggy'). Mitchell, an engaging narrator channelling Richard O'Brien, guides the audience as villagers, witches, and werewolves.

The reviewer, playing a witch, was voted to be thrown on the pyre early. The show includes a postscript about the danger of mob rule. Described as high camp and immersive, it is both fun and surprisingly emotionally engaging.