Learn more about the forthcoming Elvis Presley immersive experience, Elvis Evolution, with some of the creatives behind the world first: director and co-writer Jack Pirie and Simon Reveley, Head of Studios at Layered Reality.
Elvis Evolution is set to take over Immersive LDN at London Excel Waterfront from May 2025, with tickets on sale through the experience's official website from October 25 2024.
Elvis Evolution is set to take over Immersive LDN at London Excel Waterfront from May 2025, with tickets on sale through the experience's official website from October 25 2024.
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00:00A lot of people know the myth of Elvis more than they know much about the person or the
00:06music itself.
00:07What I think is really exciting about the Elvis story is that underneath that story
00:11of jumpsuits in Las Vegas and celebrity struggle is the story of a revolutionary sound.
00:17Layered reality makes shows that really deliver on the name of our company.
00:22We don't make traditional theatre, we don't make film, we make a new art form that sits
00:28somewhere in between.
00:29We can use immersive sound systems, which means you don't just have a set of speakers
00:33at the front, you've got sound all around you, and we control that sound in very interesting
00:37ways.
00:38We can literally mimic the acoustics of different environments.
00:40We can take you on a real journey, which we have to do with Elvis because we're going
00:44to start back in his childhood.
00:47It begins in the 1940s in the southern states of America, in Mississippi, where this boy
00:52living in extreme poverty soaks up this music coming from these cultures around the South.
01:00And he goes on to become a catalyst to something that completely changes popular culture.
01:04I think one of the things I've learned in this process, everyone has their Elvis Presley
01:08and what it means to them.
01:09We do not take lightly the responsibility to really deliver on something that is authentic
01:14and faithful for the fans.
01:16We want to bring Elvis to the fans the way they've always wanted to see him.
01:20And that means really bringing together this layering of technology, everything from these
01:25amazing screens and audio technologies, but also through to the smells.
01:29We are layering all this together with live actors, with all the theatrical techniques
01:34that we have at our disposal.
01:36We're bringing together technologies and creative media in a way that's never been done.
01:42And that is massively exciting.
01:44We can take you back to these space and let you experience them as if you had actually
01:49been there.
01:50We all think we know him and we all think we know his music, but we don't.
01:53This show will show you Elvis.
01:55We can let you feel what it was like to sit in that audience.
01:58And it will show you in a way that you've never seen it before.