![]() Written by John Krizanc and spectacularly staged by Richard Rose, “Tamara” centered on the love affair between two artists in Mussolini-era Italy, Tamara DeLampicka and Gabrielle D’Annunzio. ![]() My main point of reference for “Sleep No More” is “Tamara,” a legendary theater piece that I saw when it premiered at the Toronto International Theater Festival in 1981 and later when it was mounted at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, after a long high-visibility run in Hollywood. There have been numerous similar events in New York theater in recent years that kept the audience on its feet interacting with the performance – “De La Guarda” and “Fuerzabruta,” “Tony and Tina’s Wedding,” “The Donkey Show” (an adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” performed in a disco with the characters singing or lip-synching to 1970s classics). 3) Fortune favors the bold.” After that, you’re on your own to poke through the rooms (hotel rooms, apothecaries, children’s bedrooms, a psychiatric ward, a ballroom, a fabric shop, a loft-sized labyrinth with 10-foot-high walls made of sticks, to name just a few), follow characters around and witness their wordless interactions, and/or create your own intermission and meet friends in the bar to exchange notes on what you’ve seen. When you arrive, at one of three staggered entry times per night, you’re given a beaky face-mask, piled into an elevator, and dropped off at a random floor with only three instructions: “1) Keep your mask on at all times, and keep your mouth shut. For the occasion, the company took over a former nightclub space in far west Chelsea – three warehouse spaces six stories high – and built 100 separate rooms or environments to house the production. “Sleep No More,” an adaptation of “Macbeth” bounced off of images and settings and music taken from Hitchcock movies (“Rebecca” and “Vertigo”), is the company’s New York debut, and it’s a doozy. In the English theater company Punchdrunk’s site-specific productions, audience members explore a sprawling environment to create their own individual, non-linear experiences. McKittrick Hotel, New York City, through June 25, 2011 No one explains anything and there’s nothing worth trying to interpret.Directed by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle Yes, exploring the 5+ story hotel and its dozens of stocked and creepy rooms is fun but…nothing seems to lead to anything or have any meaning or payoff. In another scene, I watched a guy crouch down sssllllooThere truly wasn’t any story to follow -as countless reviews have echoed … In one scene, I literally watched an actor sleep in a bed for roughly 10 minutes. it’s often slow moving -like watching paint dry. ![]() We spent less than 5 minutes there and it we weren’t even into the show (and it was about a $400/couple upcharge)!!Īs you’ve read elsewhere, the show is a mess. The “reserved table” is kind of ‘scammy.’ If you want to see the show and do the experience, you’ll likely hardly use the reserved table. 99% of the show takes place on other rooms and floors (where there are plenty of other FREE places to sit down). This comment is more of a buyer be ware….ĭo NOT get the package with the reserved table. ![]() I do not fault the playhouse or production company for the behavior of its patrons, however, the crowding and rudeness of other guests was not at all pleasurable! - My 1 star ranking in no way reflected this part of my experience. PS- SUPER HATED WEARING A MASK UNDER A MASK. I had more fun acting like the entire building was a haunted escape room and I had to find clues to get myself out in the fastest time possible. Even if I could follow the story, awful - just awful. This play was all over the place - I was so lost and confused. You are then placed onto an elevator and dropped off at random floors… from there the poop show commences. The experience - you are herded through a mandatory coat check-in line, sent to a ticket booth, phone checked and then told to head to the 2nd floor lounge. My poor husband didn’t understand by the website description that when you pay $300+ per ticket it is only for a seat at a table that is completely unnecessary, and a bottle of champagne that I can’t drink…. I have to say I really loved the concept and theming of this place. ![]()
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