A lot followed Macbeth, and were surprised I hadn’t made it to the ‘orgy room’ as they called it (kinda relieved) but I was disappointed I didn’t make it to the candy room where you could help yourself to free lollies! Turns out I had been following Lady Macbeth most of the night. We exchanged notes with the others that went, and it was really interesting to hear what the others saw when they followed different characters at different points. David was slightly disappointed, stating that he had even worn his best underwear in case they dragged him into the performance – he was prepared for anything! I was relieved that I hadn’t been pulled into the performance myself, which is what I had heard could happen. The performance culminated with a final scene with all of the actors in the ballroom, and then we were all guided back to the bar. They proceeded to have a very real fight scene with 5 of us observing huddled in the corner to make sure we weren’t hit but the low hanging light they kept swinging at each other. Then in stormed another actor, slammed the door to the small room, where the original actor was standing behind it. We were told to wear comfortable shoes on our tickets and I’m glad I did, as we had to sprint at times to keep up with the actors! At one point we were following an actor and he seemed to disappear into a small room. But we spent the night walking around the hotel, following the different actors, their interactions, and putting together the pieces of the story. I won’t got into to much detail about the performance, as it’s one thing I recommend everyone who comes to New York does, and I don’t want to ruin the surprise. Her first scene was stripping completely naked and hopping into one of ten baths in a room that looked like it was from an insane asylum. We followed her throughout the rooms and watched her story unfold. So I, along with about 10 others in white masks, started following her. It was one of the female actors, her hands covered in blood. After about 10 minutes of randomly walking around the multiple levels, I had a scream and followed it. I then commenced wondering around the hotel, which was the most unbelievable set I have seen. If at any time we had had too much, we were to head back to the bar – eep! Then the gentleman in charge if the lift stopped it, let one person out, closed the doors again, and took the rest of us to a different level to exit.ĭavid and I had been told to split up so that we could compare notes at the end of the night, so we did. In the lift, we were instructed to leave the mask on at all times, and that we could not speak from now on. We were ushered into a lift in small groups, and all given a white mask to wear. David was particularly nervous, and had en extra shot just before we started. We made it the 1930’s themed bar, decked out like an old school cocktail lounge, complete with live music, where we were greeted by one of the performers (I think?) and had one more drink before we headed in. We made our way to the bar through an extremely dark passage, me having to lead David by the hand as he couldn’t see. They let us enter in small groups, where we entered via a cloakroom where they stripped up of everything except for money for the bar. We got to the hotel and lined up outside. So that was all we had to work with before seeing the performance, along with some snippets of what people told us. The company’s website doesn’t have much information about the show, and deliberately maintains the mystery, but Wikipedia describes Sleep No More as “a site-specific, interactive work of theater” and that it “adapts the story of Macbeth, deprived of all spoken dialogue and set in a 1930’s-era establishment called the McKittrick Hotel”. However we had also been told to make sure we had a couple of drinks under our belt before the performance, which made me slightly nervous! Our friends had been in the past, and I knew it was a type of interactive theater in a big warehouse, but that was about it about this particular performance. This weekend David and I experienced ‘Sleep No More’ at the McKittrick Hotel in Chelsea.
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