“WE THOUGHT IT WAS A DISASTER!”
IT HAD BEEN in the works for a decade. Yet weeks away from The Third Day’s 12-hour live event, it seemed dead. And then, just in the nick of time, echoing the plot’s own Christ allegory, it was resurrected and completely reconfigured, resulting in a truly pioneering piece of television, the likes of which we’d never seen.
Felix Barrett, artistic director of interactive theatre company Punchdrunk, had been toying with the idea for ten years, wondering, he tells Empire , “if television could be a portal into something live and then back out again. I’ve always loved watching telly, or watching a film, and imagining if it was actually real, as if you could go into it.”
He landed on that format — three episodes of a series followed by a live event, before returning to TV for the final chapters — and tapped up Dennis Kelly, writer of Channel 4’s , to write a story for
