You receive a letter from a woman who is haunted by a mysterious event in her past—and she needs your help

When you arrive at her family’s warehouse, you ascend to the fifth and sixth floors in a creaking freight elevator, followed by a voice that calls out through the shadows, drowning you in echoes of wells and engines and graveyards, in tangles of hair and snow, in sharp reflections of your darkest moments—a voice that may not be human.

Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin is a multi-sensory, immersive, site-specific experience refracting ancient Japanese ghost stories through a modern, multi-cultural lens, revealing the noise of our histories and the silences that haunt us. A small group of twelve enters a room alone, the walls begins to thin, and a dark spirit stirs within you - will you ever escape it?

Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin is an immersive experience in 10,000 square feet of warehouse space and combines masked and unmasked actors, highly expressive physical performance, interactive sets, multiple puppetry traditions, projected media, sophisticated special effects, and illusions. It is not recommended for audience members who are not comfortable with walking, ducking, navigating small spaces, standing for periods of time, loud noises, moments of complete darkness, or being alone. Because of its nature, the show is not wheelchair accessible and audience members must be able to navigate stairs on their own, however Rogue Artists Ensemble will be offering a special modified matinee performance AT 2PM of the production that is wheelchair accessible.

Written by Lisa Sanaye Dring and Chelsea Sutton with Rogue Artists Ensemble

PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES

Secret Mid City Warehouse, Los Angeles, 2017

PRESS

 “A BEAUTIFUL AND MACABRE WORLD… an impressively detailed experience… I happily recommend this show” — Terry Morgan, Talkin’ Broadway
 “A THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING TRIP… part haunted house, part art installation, part performance-art piece... increasingly wondrous… lovingly designed to engage a variety of senses” — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times
 “BRILLIANT… Rogue/EWP have earned a place in one of the weirdest, coolest supernatural monster traditions on the planet… Kaidan is a really good show.” — Eric Larkin, Dwarf & Giant
 “A MASTERPIECE… 10 out of 10…. My mind is still reeling from the experience.” — Patrick Chavis, LA Theatre Bites 
 “A FASCINATING ADVENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN… As artistically beautiful and complex as it is otherworldly… Get ready to have your mind blown… I can't rave about it enough.” – Ellen Dostal, Broadway World
“KUDOS… DARK, SCARY AND SINISTER… an immersive haunted house setting with ghostly twists and turns…the talented cast successfully conveys the mystifying and chilling nature of these ageless tales from Japan. Get ready to jump right into the middle of these legends.” — Elaine Mura, LA Splash