Planning to watch a play this weekend? Here's how you can take that extra step and be part of one. And this isn't acting workshops that we are talking about but an immersive theatre experience where you form a central part of the performance. Ethiros Theatre Group's Prison Games premiered in February this year after month-long rehearsals that involved converting director Nishil Kamalan's home into a three-part rehearsal space. The performance space is divided similarly, and audience members receive prison uniforms on arrival. They are blindfolded and taken into the 'first room'. "We tap into their senses this way. We tell them they will sleep on ice slabs. Ice cubes are used for that and odour pouches to replicate the smell inside a prison," says Kamalan.

Part performance, part game, the audience has to find the mystery behind a murder at the prison and eventually find an escape by collating a blueprint.