It’s just been pointed out to me that my eyes have been wide open — like ‘what the hell just happened’ wide open — for some time.
The appearance of my eyes is of little concern to me right now, however. My current predicament involves trying to assemble the jumble of very recently-collected and wildly colourful emotions and memories in my head into some sort of coherent and easy-to-access order. I’m simultaneously euphoric and bewildered and it’s proving extremely difficult. There are also some quite famous faces from U.K. TV around me as well as a much-celebrated author (whose books I happen to love) and an England soccer star — none of whom I’m allowed to name in this piece — which isn’t really helping matters. Thankfully, most of them are looking a little wide-eyed as well.
To explain this rather peculiar situation, somewhat cryptically, I’ve just been a “passenger” on “You Me Bum Bum Train,” the ridiculously-named immersive theater experience for which the words “immersive theater experience” don’t nearly do it justice.
The show (is it a show? I guess it can be called a show…) is currently housed in a secret location in central London — a drab, grey 1970s office block that most of us would walk past without bothering to turn our heads. There’s a blue neon sign on the ground floor’s back wall that reads “You Me Bum Bum Train,” but it’s barely visible from the street. I honestly have no idea where I now am inside this building (but again, this is far from my chief concern).
This is — quite possibly — all I’m allowed to say about “You Me Bum Train Train.” With eyes still wide open and thoughts continuing to pinball, I’ve been chatting to co-creators Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd (pictured above), who devised a loose concept for the experience while university friends in 2004 and have been developing and expanding it across a smattering of increasingly in-demand pop-ups in London over the last two decades. They’re giving me some truly golden anecdotes about the production, their interactions with the big names who have taken part and the impact it’s had on people, each one swiftly followed with “please don’t write about that.” Not ruining the mystique is absolutely critical.
I’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement. I’ve promised not to utter a word (ok, I’m allowed to utter some words). I’m also very scared of the vast army of devoted Bum Bum fanatics who may well hunt me down if I spill the beans.
Invited to take part in “You Me Bum Bum Train” as a media guest, writing about something I can’t really write about is proving to be my trickiest assignment to date.
But despite being shrouded in near-total secrecy, “You Me Bum Bum Train” has become the hottest ticket in London. So hot, in fact, that tickets simply aren’t available. At least not to mere mortals (ahem, outside the press). The current show — its first in almost 10 years — saw 120,000 people apply in a ballot on the first minute of release, more than Glastonbury.
But an array of A-listers, most likely gifted tickets by well-wishers or people trying to curry favor, have been through those unremarkable doors in recent weeks.
If local news articles (and whispers from within the industry) are to be believed, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brie Larson, Andrew Garfield, James Norton, Naomi Campbell and many more have also been “passengers” on the latest “You Me Bum Bum Train,” alongside film execs, producers, and, as mentioned before, a Who’s Who of U.K. TV stars. Prince Harry — and his bodyguards — was spotted at a performance when it was last on in 2016, while Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Dominic West are said to have attended. James Corden reportedly liked it so much he signed on to join its army of volunteers, a near cult-like troupe of giddy enthusiasts who do everything from work on the production side, to man the reception and cloak room to appear within the experience itself. At its 2016 show, 13,242 volunteers are said to have taken part.
It should be noted that while many of the volunteers are, as one puts it, “Bum Bum veterans,” people who have enjoyed the experience in one of its previous iterations and simply wanted to become involved, many have never actually been on the “train.” One tells me that he’s volunteering as an actor while still waiting to find out if he’s been successful in the ballot (the odds are heavily stacked against him). Another explains that she rode “You Me Bum Bum Train” when it was on in 2011 and refused to tell her husband anything about what happened for almost 15 years until he was able to take part in the current edition. “Otherwise it would have spoiled it for him!” she explains.
So, how to describe “You Me Bum Bum Train” within the somewhat strict parameters that have been set out and not spoil it for anyone?
Essentially, it’s an immersive theater experience where you aren’t merely a bystander, but the lead star. Each passenger is individually guided through a carousel of ridiculously creative, intensely believable, forensically detailed and even occasionally topical scenes — most just a few minutes long — that don’t simply require your attention but wholehearted, full-throated participation, with the performers focused on you and what decision you choose to make in that moment.
A couple of the scenes are quiet and meditative, but most put you in the hot seat in a highly intense adrenaline-charged, think-on-your-feet situation very few of us will ever come close to finding ourselves in. Have you ever dreamed of throwing out some main character vibes? Now’s your chance. Or not. There’s no right or wrong way to do it. You can really be whoever you’d like to be and approach each scene whichever way you want (within reason, of course) — the hundreds of actor volunteers there to react accordingly, and then swiftly usher you into the next insane moment.
It’s all exhilarating, surreal, liberating, beautiful, hilarious, mind-boggling, terrifying and profound. But it’s also genuinely self-revelatory. You may well express yourself in ways you never thought you’d be able to or act far outside the personality you believed was yours. Maybe the you you thought was you isn’t the real you? Yes, it’s that’s deep. And I’m also a massive cynic.
The words “life-changing” crop up a lot among “You Me Bum Bum Train” folk and it’s easy to see why. Indeed, before I went, I’d been told that others had come out and, revitalized by the experience, had completely changed careers and got divorced. As a happily married man with a job I quite enjoy, I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a hint of trepidation.
But no, I won’t be ditching the family or resigning anytime soon (especially not when my work can get me a highly-coveted “You Me Bum Bum Train” ticket). But being a passenger has definitely stirred something inside. Even days later, with my eyes now thankfully open at a more acceptable size and state of befuddlement back to usual levels, I found myself still processing it all. “Oh shit, I did do that!” was the standard internal response as some moment I’d completely forgotten about emerged from the depths of my mind. “And I was actually… pretty good at it!”
Mostly, I’m just extremely grateful that I’ve been able to experience this spectacular creation and not just wonder from afar what the hell it was all about. “If You Know You Know” has become the standard response on social media from participants and, well, now I know. Sadly, only a small percentage of the 120,000 ballot hopefuls will be lucky enough to say the same before the current show ends in London May 2. Likely more Hollywood stars and celebrities will become passengers in that time (I spotted a paparazzi hoping to snap one outside when I left — the venue isn’t that secret).
But there could soon be an opportunity for “You Me Bum Bum Train” wannabes not able to make it to London to still have their minds blown. Variety hears that locations are being scoured for the world’s wildest immersive experience to transfer to the U.S.
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