Appearing in the Garden of Unearthly delights at Adelaide Fringe earlier this year was a simple white shipping container. Simple, except that inside it was decked out to replicate a commercial aeroplane. Like any plane flight, “passengers” at the festival would board the container, take their seats and put on headsets. After that, though, things took a turn.

This was Flight, the latest production by Darkfield, a UK immersive-theatre company best known for Séance – the mind-bending sensory deprivation experience that has been a hit on local shores over the last couple of years. This month, Darkfield is once again collaborating with Australia’s Realscape Productions to bring Flight to Brisbane for the first time.

Like Séance before it, Flight takes place in complete darkness and inside a shipping container. But this time the creators tap into a universal fear: being 30,000 feet above ground and powerless.