New Immersive Theatre Experience THE DOUBLE to Premiere in Seattle

The Double, a bold new production from immersive theatre company Witness, will have its world premiere on June 27, 2025, transforming a vacant downtown office in Seattle into a fully-designed space for a contemporary psychological thriller. Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella, the production reimagines the story with shades of Severance within the unsettling, liminal environs of a modern tech office.

Audiences will enter an open-plan office environment, taking seats at desks and observing live action unfold behind a glass-walled conference rooms, while scattered computer monitors play duelling interviews recounting the leadup to a mysterious incident. Guests are welcome to engage however they choose - switching seats or walking around to get a different vantage point, rifling through scattered files left behind on the desks, or even grabbing themselves coffee from the break room - allowing them to experience and explore the story to their liking throughout.

Witness is returning to Seattle after their previous production Last Days of the Tsars at the Stimson-Green Mansion in 2020. Witness is an immersive theatre company that has created such shows as The Island, which reset the myth of Circe and Odysseus in a disused hospital campus in London; Ritual, a daylong durational installation based on The Oresteia that featured one actor performing for 8 hours straight; Noirtown, a free-roam experience hailed as "electrifying" by The New York Times; and their debut THE VISITATION, which sold out two consecutive runs at the Wyckoff House, the oldest building in New York City.