Having spent the last two decades pioneering what has become known as “immersive” theater, in which audiences are allowed to explore vast buildings as the drama plays out around them, Brit theater company Punchdrunk — best known in the U.S.
for the show Sleep No More — has set its sights on a new medium. The Third Day — a Sky/HBO production with Brad Pitt’s Plan B exec producing — which has been billed as the “world’s first immersive TV drama,” is a miniseries following Sam (Jude Law), a man drawn to a mysterious island off the English coast and populated by tradition-obsessed locals.
Naomie Harris, Katherine Waterston, Emily Watson and Paddy Considine also star in the drama, shot on the small island of Osea (about two hours drive from.