Sleep No More plays on West 27th Street in NYC through June 27th. … chacun a son gout … caveat emptor … etc … DISCLOSURE: I didn’t see all of it but after getting the idea, found a black mask to guide me to the exit. Still, the sense that you’re in a fire-trap … well, let’s just say it adds a realistic note of fear. The staff is well trained (you can tell them by their black masks - yours is white) and are on hand to rescue the faint-hearted or those who just want to find their way back to the bar - or the exit. No ones jumping out and grabbing you no chainless chainsaws will be pressed against that vulnerable spot behind your knees. Some make reference to Macbeth, e.g., there’s an attack by witches, and others are just violent - a man kills a woman - or sexy - two guys in bed, and other mixes and matches.
Unlike, say, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, these scenes have live performers. Wearing a mask to further remove you from yourself, you follow maze-like dark corridors at seeming random with illuminated vignettes with elaborate and well done sets, and music and dance, that are scary, seductive or both. It’s the latest live event to restart following. Cocktails are available for purchase to heighten the intoxication.įrom there - when your number comes up, heh heh - you embark on the path of Sleep No More. Sleep No More, the immersive site-specific reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth thrilling NYU Tisch students since 2011, has announced its return. Its smoky illusion unifies staff in evening dress, visitors in jeans and whatever, and the blood red decor for an oceanic experience. Teenagers would love it, but it’s expensive, and the large bar is the central launching point for the experience, so in feeling it’s more for “over 21” - but not much over.įinally allowed in, you pass through a long, dark, high-ceilinged passage, check your belongings (for a hefty fee), since it’s best to be unencumbered, and the staff keeps repeating “It’s hot up there” - turn your reservation into a playing card ticket farther on, and then set off on narrow, winding ( Sleep No More is not for the claustrophobic) twists and turns to emerge into a large bar and lounge. Almost everyone in line (you wait in line outside as for a club until your scheduled time comes up) was in their early 20’s, lots of couples who’d made a fiscal investment for a night of fun. It’s a kind of spooky fun-house entertainment installed in a re-worked old hotel in NYC’s Chelsea district. Still, it’s well done for what it is, and admirably polished, though not my cup of tea. I’m writing about it to let you know, if interested, that it’s not a play and not much about Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Even the opening of the show, in which you’re taken to the show in an elevator. For starters, the audience is walking or running around, standing close to one another and the actors.
Even more than other shows, what set the show apart presented unique challenges to reopen safely. That is, I expected to see a play since it’s listed as “Off-Broadway” and Punchdrunk is a British theater company. Rassmussen released the supposed original Sandman, dubbed 'Patient Zero', from its pod. Due to the pandemic, Sleep No More shut down in March 2020. I went to Sleep No More thinking, from what I’d heard, that it would be an exciting, deconstructed version of Macbeth.
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