![]() ![]() All the same, stumbling groggily up and down staircases and around darkened hallways gives the night the sludgy, abstracted aura of a nightmare. The only caveat I would offer is to attend Sleep No More fully rested: You need your wits about you. Sleep No More is an interactive, immersive, wild, and dark theater production put on by the. A Shakespearean can walk about checking off visual allusions to the classic tragedy the less lettered can just revel in the freaky haunted-house vibe. I chose the latter, discovering a room lined with empty hospital beds a leafless wood in which a nurse inside a thatched cottage nervously checks her pocket watch an office full of apothecary vials and powders and the ballroom, forested with pine trees screwed to rolling platforms (that would be Birnam Wood). Sleep No More 561219 06 Storm Annabel Lee.mp3. Sleep No More 561212 05 Three Oclock.mp3. Sleep No More 561205 04 Over Hill Man In Black Hat.mp3. Sleep No More 561128 03 Mr Mergenthwirker Lobblies Aug Heat.mp3. Sleep No More 561121 02 Conquerors Isle.mp3. You can follow the mute dancers from one floor to the next, or wander aimlessly through empty spaces. 19 shows - total playtime 8 hours 46 minutes. ![]() Sleep No More puts a spin on the typical theatrical event, and has wowed crowds across the globe since its inception. ![]() troupe Punchdrunk, have orchestrated a true astonishment, turning six warehouse floors and approximately 100,000 square feet into a purgatorial maze that blends images from the Scottish play with ones derived from Hitchcock movies-all liberally doused in a distinctly Stanley Kubrick eau de dislocated menace.Īn experiential, Choose Your Own Adventure project such as this depends on the pluck and instincts of the spectator. Sleep No More first began as a Punchdrunk production in 2003 and was revived in 2009, with several other performances of the show popping up since then. The immersivity of these performances, therefore, refers not only to the time spent inside the McKittrick Hotel, but also addresses the performances. Directors Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, of the U.K. Your sense of space and depth-already compromised by the half mask that audience members must don-is further blurred as you wend through more than 90 discrete spaces, ranging from a cloistral chapel to a vast ballroom floor. No.1013 Beijing West Road Maijinnong Hotel, Shanghai 200041 China Contribute Write a review Upload a photo Also popular with travelers See all ERA Acrobats 1,063 Theatre & Performances Jing'an Tickets from 59.90 Shanghai Circus World 2,029 Points of Interest & Landmarks Architectural Buildings Jing'an Tickets from 48. A multitude of searing sights crowd the spectator's gaze at the bedazzling and uncanny theater installation Sleep No More. Ultimately everyone (actors and audience) find themselves in one location, where the final scene plays out using all the major characters. To untimely rip and paraphrase a line from Macbeth: Our eyes are made the fools of the other senses, or else worth all the rest. ![]()
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