![]() Even more impressive is the incredible attention to detail covered in the design: envelopes open up to reveal carefully crafted letters, upon opening dressers, we find codes or passages of quoted text from the play, closets open up and showcase false walls containing hidden pathways, and that’s just scraping the surface.Īudiences are split up, required to wear a mask a la commedia dell’arte, and forbidden from speaking. The hour I spent looking around throughout a guided tour by Weiner only covered a small fraction of the floors and their contents. This is theatre to the next level, as described by Randy Weiner, one of the lead producers: “the actors are doing their thing…we’re just immersed in it.” Instead, you explore a huge house with 90 rooms, spanning 100,000 square feet. the witches, Macbeth, Macduff, Duncan, etc.), the entire evening features no dialogue, and it’s not your traditional sit-in-the-audience play. Even though actors represent distinct characters (i.e. However, the story is told in an entirely unique and utterly fascinating manner. Sleep No More tells the story of Macbeth as re-imagined in a 1930s hotel that’s haunted by witches. This is the New York debut of Punchdrunk, a successful British theatre company, whose production is being mounted in collaboration with EMURSIVE). ![]() On a recent slushy afternoon in West Chelsea, I had been invited for a private tour of the future site of Sleep No More, a new immersive production that is currently being installed in advance of a March opening.
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