12/23/2023 0 Comments Tickets for sleep no more new yorkThe show’s influences spider far beyond the Bard and Hitch: Players of puzzle-horror first person video games like BioShock will find the Sleep experience highly gratifying (and the notion of becoming a camera highly familiar). “If it’s all too much,” a docent tells you at the beginning, “there’s always the bar.” I made use of it. (Maxine Doyle’s wall-crawling choreography - two parts parkour to one part The Fly - helps the actors doff their humanity with ease their sexuality, however, remains fixatingly intact.) And then there’s Macbeth himself, conjuring the Weird Sisters in a strobe-lit demon disco. The presumed Lady Macbeth herself is poised above her bloody bathtub, or climbing a mountain of antique furniture like a rabid ape. Danvers from Hitchcock’s Rebecca - here in loyal service to Lady Macbeth - spooning milky poison down the gullet of a soused, super-pregnant woman who very well might be Lady Macduff. A gelid blonde who may or may not be Mrs. And all the while, you’re carried on perfectly modulated aural swells of Bernard Herrmann pastiche, courtesy of sound designer Stephen Dobbie.Īlong the way, you’re guaranteed to stumble on what Punchdrunk’s directors, designers, and choreographers (Felix Barrett, Maxine Doyle, Livi Vaughan, and Beatrice Minns) refer to as “situations”: a man who may or may not be Duncan, right king of Scotland, being murdered in a sheikh’s tent. (N.B.: This doesn’t exempt you from actor contact - in fact, you’re practically guaranteed to be interfered with at some point in the approximately three hours it takes to survey the space and absorb the long arc of the story.) Fending for yourself in the fictional “McKittrick Hotel” (a pointed Vertigo reference that dizzy or claustrophobic types should take to heart before booking), you’re given the run of six misty, intricately detailed floors, with more than 100 rooms full of (and this is a partial list) clues, red herrings, hair samples, teeth scattered like gaming dice, magic spells, animal bones in carefully labeled bins, a mass of old-fashioned desk fans that turn on and off at random, rotary-dial phones that have actual dial tones, grisly private eye photos of corpses, bloodstains that appear and disappear, patchy ad hoc taxidermy posed for maximal menace, and a ballroom stalked by moving trees. You and your fellow voyeurs, enskulled in your morbid headgear, quickly become part of the creepy scenery. Presented with a bone-white Venetian beak mask (the kind favored by plague doctors in the Renaissance), you’re invited to gawk, shame-free, at whatever you see, to rifle through drawers, files, Rolodexes, and even coffins. (Also: ’tis sold-out, but set to extend, so get your trigger finger ready.) The UK’s Punchdrunk theater collective - famed for these sorts of immersive, site-specific experiments back on their native sod - has finally brought Sleep to the city that never does, and now, most certainly, won’t: The show infects your dreams. What in Hecate’s name is Sleep No More? A dance-theater horror show? A wordless, nonlinear mash-up of Macbeth and the darker psychosexual corners of Hitchcock? A six-story Jazz Age haunted house for grown-ups and anyone who’s ever entertained sick cineast-y fantasies of living inside a Kubrick movie? ’Tis all these, and more besides: a deed without a name, to quote an infernal authority. If you're looking to chat with other people about the Hotel: ĭisclaimer: This discord is not officially affiliated with Sleep No More or this subreddit.Mon-Sat, 7pm, 7:15pm, 7:30pm, 7:45pm, 8pm įri-Sat, 11pm, 11:15pm, 11:30pm, 11:45pm, midnight There is no hard rule here, I only ask people use best judgement. I ask that we start using the spoiler link or spoiler tag for 1:1s and other things behind closed doors or if you think other people might not want to know extreme details. If you have another show you like or are creating your own show go ahead and post about, just dont spam because are probably not going to want to go to your show if you do that. Posts about other immersive theater are allowed. If you want to add a spoiler to one of your comments, simply wrap it in exclamation marks and arrows >!!!Spoilers go here!< You can do this with after submitting a post with the links at the top under the post title, it should say "# Comments, Share, Hide, Delete, etc" a Spoiler link should be there somewhere. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."Ī subreddit to help pursue and/or soothe our obsession after experiencing Punchdrunk's "Sleep No More".įor a list of performers past and present check out the Unofficial SNM Cast List on Tumblr.
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