You are essentially transported to the 1930s amidst the garbled warbling of the Ink Spots and Glenn Miller floating in and out of rooms, beckoning you to follow the action. The tragic Shakespearean sequence of events lends itself naturally to the Hitchcock-esque ambience of the environment. You’ll keep coming up against details that cement the idea that you are actually a guest in this hotel, witnessing the unraveling of its noble visitors. Take the time to have a look inside drawers, underneath half-full cups of tea, at the menus in the breakfast room (Aberdeen butteries, anyone?). Hence the name of the venue – the McKittrick Hotel, which is actually a five- or six-story warehouse in which every miniscule detail has been slaved over. As they will tell you, fortune favors the bold.īesides the story of Macbeth which creates the solid foundation of this show, Sleep No More leans into the eeriness of the Shakespearean story by reframing it, not in a Scottish castle, but in a luxury hotel in the 1930s. Would you take the shotglass? The more risks you take, the more interesting your night will become. But Sleep No More, for the curious spectator, is better defined in the choices you make between the action. Three witches, writhing and dancing and seducing, wreaking havoc together and apart. You can pick out other characters if you know the story well enough. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stalk the eerie hallways, muttering to themselves and sometimes covered in blood. In a broad sense, Sleep No More is a retelling of Macbeth. This one takes the shotglass, hesitates, and then drains it. He offers it to another spectator, watching her carefully. In response, he offers her a shotglass filled with an unidentified liquid. A spectator pulls the card that he is looking for. In one of the many, many rooms, at a bar made entirely of cardboard and lit only by a dim lamp, a man is silently offering a deck of cards to the spectators on the other side of the bar. It’s one of the first things you must adapt to if you are to make your way in the world that is Sleep No More.
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