hile cat housebreaking appears a faintly elegant relic of one other time, one new opening by Broadgate Circus is providing Londoners an opportunity to get stealthy – and pull off an artwork heist for probably the most helpful work of all time.
The Good Crime, which launches on June 24 at Theatre Deli on Finsbury Avenue, is a brand new immersive escape room expertise combining theatre and puzzle fixing, which places gamers within the midst of a break-in.
The setting for the interactive present will likely be acquainted to followers of the Netflix docuseries “This Is a Theft: The World’s Greatest Artwork Heist”, which tells the story of two males who posed as policemen to steal 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, together with Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. It’s nonetheless lacking.
The blurb for the present reads: “Now, 30 years later, with the FBI providing a reward of $1 million, and an estimated black-market worth of $100 million, it’s the most respected stolen portray on this planet. And we all know the place it’s.
“Break into the safehouse of a legendary thief. Overcome their in depth safety programs by unlocking excessive tech locks, cracking unbreakable safes, crawling by the laser matrix and disabling alarms to lastly get your palms on probably the most helpful lacking piece of artwork on this planet! Will you declare the FBI reward? Or likelihood your arm on the Black Market? You have got a window of 60 minutes. Synchronise watches now.”
The present, which prices £30 per particular person and could be booked for between teams of two and 6, comes from Rogue Productions, whose director Dean Rogers beforehand labored on the hit Crystal Maze expertise, in addition to Time Run and Heist.
Rodgers stated: “That is our most exhilarating expertise but. And I feel we might all do with some adrenaline now. We have now taken the perfect of immersive theatre and escape video games to make this the chopping fringe of each. We have now designed each element, so you are feeling the true thrill of committing the proper crime. It is a high-octane expertise that makes you the star of your personal heist film. Nothing might be extra enjoyable than getting away with it.”