As debate rages on over the future of the Theatre Royal, a group of theatre makers is finding their own way around Sydney's lack of performance spaces.

Tucked away in a nondescript disused warehouse on busy King Street in Newtown an exciting and strange piece of immersive theatre is taking place.

A Midnight Visit asks guests to sign a waiver as they are taken into a funeral parlour for an hour-long wander through the life and mind of Edgar Allan Poe.

A group of actors play the characters in his life and guide the audience around the custom-designed space that includes a hospital ward, a sitting room, a dining room and other secret 'hidden' rooms before they make their way upstairs where things get a little more bizarre.