Angel Meadow @ Cutting Room Square, Manchester, 10-29 Jun

Arriving at Cutting Room Square, Ancoats, surrounded by vast trendy apartments projecting World Cup jubilation from their residents, we are unaware of the experience we are about to undertake. As Angel Meadow begins, eight audience members are immersed in the location's previous life as Manchester's underbelly, led by a blood-spattered descendant of Irish immigrants who resided here during the industrial revolution. 

Angel Meadow succeeds in separating you from your fellow audience members – as well as, seemingly, from your own psyche – as you are manoeuvred around the now-derelict Edinburgh Castle pub: a bleak and nightmarish hub in which the characters attempt to find a sense of belonging.

No experience is the same and the journey is sculpted by the decisions you, the 'audience' member, make. You can find yourself playing pool, alone in a meat locker, narrowly escaping a shot of bleach or standing face to face with the devil. The piece is highly atmospheric and stimulates the senses with the smell of burnt toast and sweat, of brewing angst and grief.

The excellent cast of ANU Productions present an immersive experience of a forgotten world and reveal the darker side of human nature. Angel Meadow will get under your skin and into your head. It is not a performance for the faint-hearted, it is perhaps not a performance at all – but a reminder. You may leave Angel Meadow feeling anxious, manipulated and thoroughly uncomfortable but the beauty of the piece lies in its rawness, in its refusal to accommodate a voyeuristic audience. Our advice to you: go with it.