FROM 12-hour performances of Macbeth set in a tower block, to bringing Franz Kafka's paranoid works to the nooks and crannies of east London, theatre company RIFT has been pushing the boundaries of immersive performance art across London for the past three years.

But now founding duo Felix Mortimer and Joshua Nawras have come to start a new chapter for the company in Tottenham, with a show about death.

They have taken over the old ambulance repair depot at 5 Ashley Road and have transformed it into a new arts venue which has already welcomed artists and performers from across the world.

Felix, a former pupil of performing arts college Highgate Wood School, says: "It is a bit of a homecoming as I grew up in Haringey near Wood Green and Josh lived in Tottenham when we met in 2009. So it's a nice full circle."

They have transformed the space where ambulances once sat into a performance area, the carpark into a cafe/bar, with an adjacent wildflower garden, and the upstairs rooms into rehearsal spaces.

Last week the duo launched their first full-scale production at the venue STYX, developed as part of RIFT's residency at the V&A a few months ago during which they explored Greek myths, and named after the river which is said to separate the living from the dead.

The immersive experience runs throughout July and the 45-minute experience takes visitors on a journey into the heart of the underworld, where you will come close to the divine and hear the gods around you.

The story, which was written and recorded by Thomas McMullin will be told through headphones, while an actors guides you though the mysterious landscapes, starting in a crematorium and travelling through a forest, to an underground station and onto a riverboat on a canal.

They hope it will be just the beginning for Tottenham's new creative hub, which has already gained the support of Arts Council England, Royal Court Tottenham, The Warehouse Community, Beavertown Brewery, Black Entertainment Television and the Bernie Grants Arts Centre, where Felix and Josh met in 2009 when they both worked there.

They set up RIFT in 2012 after Felix was awarded £30,000 from the Sky Arts fund and have been based at numerous venues across east London ever since and also run charity Shakespeare in Shoreditch.

This year they decided they wanted a place to call home so when east London-based social enterprise scheme Mill Co Project, working with Haringey Council, offered RIFT the empty depot building, Felix says they jumped at the chance.

"Tottenham has a hugely rich community of people with lots of artists and is a place that really embraces different, " explains the 28-year-old.

"We are running a series of international residencies and want to reflect Tottenham's internationalism and the fact there's people from lots of different communities here and have that in our programme.

"We have currently got 17 Parisian physical theatre performers and eight people from Africa here and two weeks ago we had some German fine artists and we had someone drive from Syria in a car to do an art installation and a Trinidadian with an architectural exhibition."

They have been offered the building for an initial three years period but hope they will prove to the council and developers that it should become a permanent arts centre.

"I think it's important people come here and have a nice time and maybe change some of the ideas around Tottenham," says Felix, " because it has so much to offer to the rest of England.

"So watch this space over the next three years because its only going to get more and more exciting."

STYX is on at 5 Ashley Road, Tottenham, until August 1. Details: r-ft.co.uk/new-products/styx