"Sleep No More" was beautiful, terrifying and novel.
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"The idea is once you're let loose on one of the floors of the hotel, you pick out a single character and pursue him or her (though you can switch any time you want), as the performer runs, dances and vaults all over the place." Basically, it requires turning your life into one big alternate reality game before the show even begins.Īs Ben Brantley wrote in his New York Times review: #Sleep no more storyline fullīut maybe that's because I hadn't known that in order to get the full experience of the play I would have had to spend hours unlocking hidden Internet websites and swapping clues on Facebook with other devotees. These actors will run you ragged through corridors and secret passageways, sometimes locking the door behind them.
Audience members themselves act as another deterrent to sticking with Macbeth or one of the witches mobs form around the actors and block you from seeing all the action. Half the time, the group divides as it tries to (silently) figure out if Macduff ran up the stairs or slipped into a backroom somewhere. Next thing you know, here's a new character with a plot all his own. You end up watching a bartender fight some other guy for awhile before realizing that you've completely missed the point. Unlike fragmented films such as "Memento" or "Inception," there's no DVD version of "Sleep No More." If you leave feeling like you didn't get it, well, you didn't get it. If only you had bothered to check out the discussion boards on the play's Facebook page, where hyper-vigilant audience members post clues on whom to follow, where the action is going to take place, and what the hell is actually going on.
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