The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

- ALEX SPENCER

Since the first paragraph of the first instalment of The Outer Limits, I've been joking about how much time I now seem to spend in derelict warehouses, generally in the vicinity of London's Docklands. So it's a little hard not to feel as though I'm being targeted by Sage & Jester, a new immersive-theatre company whose debut show is titled, simply, Storehouse.

Confusingly, that’s also the name of the Deptford venue where it takes place, the most warehouse-y warehouse I have ever laid eyes upon. It’s an enormous slab of angled metal painted sickly green, set in a 21,000-square-metre patch of concrete being gradually reclaimed by nature. Apparently the building itself was formerly used to store Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, but you can't exactly hold that against it.