![]() ![]() Trying to be a good audience member by 'maintaining a respectful distance from the actors' (as instructed) will result in everyone immediately crowding in front of you and elbowing you out of the way. Any 'immersion' here is completely nonexistent as you will be fighting through large, unruly crowds in order to get a good view of anything that the cast is doing. With that said, if you're only just now discovering it, it really feels like you missed the boat of what was once probably a really cool experience that's now been turned into a hyper-commercialized profit-driven machine (although I guess you could say that about a lot of New York, really). The McKittreck Hotel itself is a genuinely awesome and creepy setting (even the Manderley bar might be one of my favorite bars ever) and the cast is super talented and engaging with a production that's (initially) designed to reward multiple viewings. Also you have to fully mask up and it gets boiling in there so it’s thoroughly uncomfortable!Ībsolutely torn on this as I thought it was genuinely one of the coolest concepts I'd ever heard of when a friend first described it to me. Overall, I came out feeling like I’d been scammed and wanted the 3 hours of prime NYC time back. You also need to be fairly fit to keep up with the characters sprinting up and down 4 flights of stairs. WARNING: the place is bloody dark and really easy to walk into things so not for those with any sight impediments. Some interestingly bizarre interpretive dance and random nudity that was completely unnecessary, in my opinion, but I guess they need something to lure in the crowds. I ended up watching a bloke fiddle around with some bones for 15 minutes, hoping it would get interesting. Tickets are clearly oversold so once you are in, it’s a melee to follow the interesting characters and no one is adverse to elbowing you out of the way Performance: be careful who you follow. You are shown to the bar, which is cool - prices are extortionate for a drink and you have to guzzle it down to be ready to enter the “hotel”. Quite frankly, extortionate to watch a uni performance - perhaps I missed the point but at very few points could I get any semblance of Macbeth which the show is purported to be about Experience: ridiculous queueing to get in - arrive at 3 and you’ll be lucky to get in for 3:30 so it’s not actually a 3 hour show. ![]() Rather than combining Macbeth with American film noir references, the Chinese iteration combines the play with Chinese legends.I’m not sure where to start: Price: we paid a discounted price of $125 for the 3pm show. Since premiering in England and the U.S., Sleep No More has also gone up in China.Celebrities including Sara Bareilles, Leslie Odom Jr., Neil Patrick Harris, and Aaron Paul have guest-starred in Sleep No More.The white, beaked masks are modeled after the ones worn by plague doctors during the Renaissance.The McKittrick Hotel is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo, and the Manderley Bar is a reference to the filmmaker’s Rebecca.At no time may a guest under the age of 13 years old be admitted to Sleep No More. No one under 18 is permitted unless accompanied by a ticketed parent or legal guardian. Get Sleep No More tickets in New York on TodayTix. The New York Times calls it “a voyeur’s delight, with all the creepy, shameful pleasures that entails.” Sleep No More won the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and has garnered accolades from around the world. Any actor might pull you into a closet or a hut in the “woods” and tell you secrets and stories.Ĭonceived by the British theater company Punchdrunk and Emursive and co-directed by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, this dark, wordless masquerade has become a New York City institution. You are free to explore at your leisure - provided you wear your mask and don’t say a word. Characters roam freely through the five-floor warehouse space, and “situations,” as they’re called, occur at intervals on random floors. This immersive, macabre theatrical performance piece reimagines Shakespeare’s Macbeth (“The Scottish Play,” for the superstitious) through a film noir and Hitchcockian lense. Mystery awaits you - and what that mystery turns out to be is different for everyone. When the number corresponding to your card is called, you’re handed a beaked mask and ushered into an elevator. The first thing that happens before you wander down the dark black hallway into the dimly lit Manderley Bar is that you’re handed a playing card. Macbeth meets Alfred Hitchcock in this haunting and suspenseful immersive experience that will take every audience member on a different journey. ![]()
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