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The Black Maze is an adventure in the dark for one person at a time.
It is a five minute journey into the darkness of your own imagination.
It doesn't look very big from the outside, but once you dare to enter you find yourself in seemingly never ending narrow, black twisting corridors.
You feel your way through the dark, you hear you heart beat echoing all around and you catch glimpses of your frightened face staring back at you from the gloom.
Your feet feel unsteady beneath you but you must keep going and never turn back, keep going until you see the stars.
"Imagine a whole lifetime's worth of exhilaration and confusion condensed into five minutes and you have some idea of what The Black Maze is like. It offers the same breathtaking thrills and choking excitement as a good ghost train but in a subtler form and with more of your own involvement ...."
(Nicholas Royle - The Independent On Sunday)
The Black Maze was commissioned by Alan James for Birmingham City Council's Revolution event, which took place on 2nd & 3rd January 2000, part of the city's Forward Festival. It was designed and built by Stan's Cafe in collaboration with Mark Anderson from the Multi-Media Co-operative Blissbody. Customised electronics were built to Mark's specification by the excellent Graham Calvert, also of Blissbody. Special optical effects were kindly supplied by P.A.Lights. From initial discussions through to completion the maze took six weeks to build. It contains nine speakers, four microphones, a video camera, four sampler boxes, what seems like miles of cable and a host of secrets.
The Black Maze used to be flat packed but is now built into the back of a 7.5 tonne lorry and so is now entirely self contained and ready to go.
It has been incredibly popular wherever it has been - it has toured villages on the outskirts of Paris, it has been in a shopping centre in Ireland, the middle of a field in Berkshire, a pub beer garden in Devon, the seafront in Bexhill on sea to name but a few. It can go virtually anywhere from town squares to the middle of shopping centres. It is enjoyed by people of all ages and is suitable for many occasions and venues. Please e-mail us via the site's Feedback facility if you are interested in booking the maze for your school, college, pub, garden fete, corporate event, festival ...
You can see images of the maze in action on The Black Maze images page and a list of tour dates past and future on the Tours Page.
We would like to thank Cadbury World for giving us a space to park the truck.
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