Immersive theatre show transporting people to Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986 is coming to Swansea

It promises to use sound effects, footage and audio from the actual events which unfolded in the power plant

16:41, 23 Feb 2022Updated 16:43, 23 Feb 2022

The ferris wheel that still stands in the city of Pripyat, which was once home to nearly 50,000 people

It was the world's worst ever nuclear disaster. And now an immersive theatre show is heading to Swansea promising to transport people back to the scene it took place.

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Histoire Productions, which describes itself as "an immersive and interactive events company breathing life into history", is bringing its latest production, entitled 'Chernobyl - Where were you in 1986?' to Sin City in Dillwyn Street in the city centre across two nights on Friday, June 24, and Saturday, June 25.

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It promises to use sound effects, footage and audio from the actual events which unfolded in the power plant, located near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union in 1986.

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Piles of gas masks left behind after the city was abandoned and never to be returned to again

Piles of gas masks left behind after the city was abandoned(Image: Adam Mark / CATERS NEWS)

One of the apartment building in the city of Pripyat still standing

One of the apartment buildings in the city of Pripyat which is still standing

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A teaser for the show reads: "Experience the world’s worst nuclear disaster first hand - an immersive theatre show that puts the audience member in the heart of the control room of the nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986.

"Through a mixture of immersive theatre, cinematic visuals, sound effects and actual footage/audio from 1986, we take the viewer on a journey of events that led up to the core exploding at Chernobyl.

"Feel the tension as Dyatlov and his comrades try to fix the situation all around you. Experience the panic as the plant workers only have 90 seconds to clear the graphite off the floors around your tables. Understand the human cost as we come to experience what radiation poisoning does."

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The Chernobyl disaster happened at the No. 4 reactor in the power plant. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in cost and casualties.

The city was evacuated after the explosion, and despite once being home to nearly 50,000 people, has never been inhabited since.

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The shows are scheduled to begin at 7pm and to finish at 10.30pm. For ticket information, click here.

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