COLAB Theatre
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
23 September 2026
COLAB Theatre presents

SPORE

“Contact was made. Communication was misunderstood.”

COLAB Theatre unleashes SPORE — an immersive horror experience across six floors of an abandoned dental school

Wing C — the flooded lower corridor.
Wing C — the flooded lower corridor.

COLAB Theatre presents SPORE, a new immersive, interactive horror experience opening at COLAB, 123 Grays Inn Road, London, from Saturday 17 October 2026. Staged across six floors of a decayed former dental school, audiences of up to 30 are plunged into a quarantined outbreak where an intelligent fungal network has begun to communicate.

A forgotten dental school has been reopened for redevelopment. Beneath its anatomy labs, something has been growing — an organism that speaks through bone conduction, X-ray interference and living tissue. The military wants containment. A rogue scientist wants contact. Your team has ninety minutes to gather samples, decode its message, and decide what happens next — before the spores decide for you.

Blending live performance with hands-on interaction, participants place beacon transmitters, translate a fungal language from notes and specimen slides, recover evidence, and come face to face with those already altered by the growth. Every choice pushes the outbreak toward one of several endings: study it, contain it, or destroy it.

Built as a sprawling, site-specific world, SPORE moves audiences through six floors of corridors, sealed offices and infected labs, lit by cold task lighting and thick with haze and a bone-drill soundscape. The experience runs for 90 minutes and is suitable for ages 13 and over when accompanied by an adult.

Performances run at 7pm and 9pm, with tickets priced at £38.50 (including a £3.50 booking fee). Drinks are provided as part of the experience. Booking is now open.

“SPORE is about what happens when something tries to talk to us and we’re too frightened to listen. We wanted to build a living, breathing outbreak across six floors — a horror you don’t watch from your seat, but one you have to make decisions inside.”

— Bertie Watkins, Writer & Director

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Wing C — the flooded lower corridor.
Wing C — the flooded lower corridor. Save
A quarantine office — something waits behind the blinds.
A quarantine office — something waits behind the blinds. Save
The holding room.
The holding room. Save
The records office.
The records office. Save

Listings Information

Production
SPORE
Company
COLAB Theatre
Venue
COLAB, 123 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8TB
Dates
From Saturday 17 October 2026 (see booking link for the full run)
Times
7pm & 9pm
Running time
90 minutes (no interval)
Age guidance
13+ when accompanied by an adult
Capacity
Up to 30 per performance
Tickets
£38.50 (incl. £3.50 booking fee)

Content warnings: darkness, fog and haze, flashing lights, loud noises, confined spaces, body-horror imagery, themes of infection and disease, and occasional jump-scares.

Credits

Written & Directed byBertie Watkins
DramaturgeBen Chamberlain
PerformerLaurence Howard
Produced byCOLAB Theatre

About COLAB Theatre

COLAB Theatre is a London-based immersive theatre company creating bold, interactive experiences that put the audience at the centre of the action. Blending live performance, game design and detailed world-building, COLAB makes theatre you don’t just watch — you step inside it.

Press & media enquiries

producer@colabtheatre.co.uk 07724 633985

High-resolution images and interview requests available on request.

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