Love this: Secret Cinema turns to Lawrence of Arabia

via wired.co.uk

Excerpt from WiredUK:

"Walking into a Secret Cinema event is akin to walking into a festival that exists only to celebrate a single movie. This time artificial streets, market stalls, attractions -- even sand-filled deserts and real camels and donkeys -- became the set upon which performing actors and, of course, thousands of attendees, got to spend a costumed evening exploring in the build up to a screening of the three-and-a-half hour British cinema epic.

As with the Blade Runner event, the attention to detail was impressive, even if it did feel a little bit like wandering through a sandy version of Camden Market. I ventured past stalls, examining anything from snakes in jars to fortune tellers. I spent a while sat by a sandy desert mirage, drinking beer, before being pushed aside by one of the many in-character actors reenacting a chase through the markets. Good job there was a procession of belly dancers slithering their way through the faux streets to calm my would-be anxiety afterwards."

I want to go there...

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