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Sleep no more manhattan11/19/2023 ![]() The new one is smoother, more streamlined. Masked audiences and unmasked performers are a defining feature of Punchdrunk, the company that created Sleep No More. The previous Punchdrunk mask was leering, avian, a variation of those worn by medieval plague doctors. The most visible difference? The white mask. I never saw an actor miss an eight-count. Dampness aside, Sleep No More looked ready. We walked for an hour, downstairs and upstairs and down again, looking in on card games and interrogations, spying on an erotic pas de deux. (Guess the ghouls were off the clock?) In several rooms, industrial dehumidifiers added to the ambient sound.īoyd began the formal tour downstairs, in the ballroom scene, as the cast, masked and half-costumed gowns, sweats danced the night away. I had been scheduled to come a week earlier, but a pipe had burst. Literally every inch of this space has been touched in one way or the other, said Jonathan Hochwald, one of the shows producers. The ventilation system received an update, too. ![]() But beginning in the fall, the space had been thoroughly rehabbed and redecorated. We joked that the ghouls looked out for us, Carrie Boyd, the director of performance and production, told me. Sleep No More is a Hitchcock-inflected version of Macbeth and walking through its Highland noir rooms, uninhabited for nearly two years, I thought of Sleeping Beautys castle, then, ridiculously, of Pompeii. On an evening in late January, I arrived at the McKittrick Hotel in Manhattan for a rehearsal visit and a tour. 14, for those who prefer their Valentine hearts still bloodied, Sleep No More, will reopen, with new masks, new protocols and a fresh commitment to total immersion. ![]() Performances were to resume last October the delta variant changed those plans.įinally, on Feb. The March 2021 date that would have marked its 10th anniversary came and went. Sleep No More, the dark and dreamlike show that reshaped the landscape of participatory theater, left its performance space intact when it closed the doors on its dozens of rooms in March 2020. So have the lamps, the cards, the dolls, the crucifixes, the trees, the mounded salt. ![]()
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