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The War of the Worlds Immersive Experience is planning a 2021 return.

The multi award-winning Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience returns with a new production, featuring: live actors, virtual and augmented realities, 5D effects, plus the recorded voices of Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward, Inglorious’ Nathan James and Kaiser Chief’s Ricky Wilson set to Jeff’s multi-platinum selling double album.

Visitors will meet a colourful cast of characters as they visit the Royal Observatory, sneak into a deserted house, and escape London on a boat down the Thames, whilst trying to survive the Martian invaders.

Interactive holograms of Tom Brittney (Grantchester, Make Me Famous) and Anna-Marie Wayne (The War of the Worlds – Alive opposite Liam Neeson, and Audible’s audio book opposite Michael Sheen) feature as George Herbert, The Journalist and Carrie, The Journalist’s wife, and Carrie Hope Fletcher (Heathers, Les Miserables, and The War of The Worlds – Alive!), as Beth, Parson Nathaniel’s wife, PLUS a live cast of 12 actors completing an unforgettable live experience.

Tickets go on sale on 20 November 2020 via TheWarofTheWorldsImmersive.com.

There is an exclusive presale from 18 November for registered users only. Fans must pre-register for presale via TheWarofTheWorldsImmersive.com prior to 16 November.

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In 2019, composer/producer Jeff Wayne partnered with innovative digital entertainment company Layered Reality to re-imagine his Musical Work and produce what became, Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience.

Since its opening in May, 2019, it achieved widespread critical acclaim and won the prestigious TEA THEA Award, considered the “Oscars” of the Entertainment world for Outstanding Achievement in Connected Immersion and the Gold Winners for Best Innovation, Youth Travel Awards 2019.

ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?

With journalist George Herbert as your guide, he will take you through a feature-length plot of 24 scenes with the challenge of covering a full kilometer of movie sets, as you duck, dodge and slide your way through the 2-hour attack from the Martian forces.

And should you survive, you will have shared something unique, perilous and exhilarating with The Experience’s team, celebrating your survival in our themed Steampunk bar/restaurant, The Spirit of Man, welcoming you with its own smoke-blowing green-eyed Martian Fighting Machine.

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds  is the biggest-selling stand-alone double album of all time with over 16 million sales and two international hit singles – ‘The Eve of The War’ and ‘Forever Autumn’ all featured in the Experience. For over four decades, Jeff has showcased HG Wells’ dark Victorian tale to listeners and audiences from around the world, while pushing technology to the limit both sonically and visually.

Originally released in June, 1978, 40 years after Orson Welles’ infamous panic inducing Halloween night radio broadcast about a Martian invasion of New York. Today, the apocalyptic themes of Jeff’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds appear more relevant than ever.

SAFETY FIRST

To ensure our audiences safe enjoyment throughout the show, all our actors are newly trained to keep the groups at a safe distance, allowing our Guests to be at the heart of the action, experiencing first hand the fear and destruction wrought by the attack of the Martian forces.

FROM JEFF WAYNE

“My musical version of The War of The Worlds has now occupied a good part of my life, and I’ve been fortunate to see it grow in so many unexpected ways.  TWOTW Experience is one of those, a different world of entertainment, led by a group of diversely talented people to bring this unusual production to life, since its opening in May 2019.

When the pandemic closed TWOTW Experience virtually over-night in March 2020, it was like so many others that instantly became threatened, with no real surety of when ‘normal’, or even close to ‘normal’, would return.

But during this long period, those at Layered Reality worked tirelessly to meet every criteria the government required to make our show “COVID-secure. I am very grateful for their fortitude and determination, to now know that The Martians Are Coming…back!   And with our collective teams, we’ll be returning with a new production that has pushed the levers of creatively even further.

No one would have believed!”