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Kathryn Williams

Immersive Peaky Blinders event to return to Cardiff as final series of drama airs on TV

By Order Of, the Peaky Blinders themed event is returning to Cardiff four years after its popular debut.

Hosted at Depot, the street food venue and event space, the evenings will be hosted on the weekend of April 16 and 17 , and Saturdays, April 23 and 30.

Tickets for the dates will go on sale at 10am on Thursday, January 27, from Depot's website.

Read more: The Peaky Blinders original cast and what happened to them next

The event is back as the final series of the successful BBC drama, which is about a criminal gang headed up by the Shelbys in early-20th Century Birmingham, is due to air in early 2022.

Organisers promise that the event will 'blur the barriers between performers and audience,' as the immersive experience will welcome fans of the show in their fancy dress.

The Peaky Blinders event at The Depot, Cardiff 2018 (Sin Mei Lam)

Previous events have seen Peaky Blinders storylines acted out through the night, theatrical surprises and lots of jazz and cocktails to boot. Read our review, here.

The TV show first aired in September 2013 and slowly built up a cult following, until it became cult no longer and gained fans across the world thanks to Netflix.

The fifth series moved from BBC 2 to BBC One in 2019 and the upcoming series six. In April 2021 actress Helen McCrory died of cancer as the new episodes were being filmed and was unable to reprise her role as the iconic Aunt Polly.

Star Cillian Murphy, who plays Tommy Shelby said of McCrory recently: " “What I always feel sad about is that we were about to shoot and then the pandemic happened and we had to stop. If we had shot then, Helen would’ve been in the show, and that makes me feel sad.

"It’s a huge loss; it’s hard to comprehend it. Because she was the matriarch of the whole thing. As the character, but just also as her personality. But she’s still present in series six."

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