Where’s the line between experimental and entrepreneurial? We expect a merch table at a Broadway show – Aladdin has a whole bazaar – but there’s something less comfortable about a purportedly avant-garde work that looks to be cashing in, as Sleep no More does with its tie-in bars, its $20 souvenir programs aggressively flogged to departing guests. Photograph: Stephen Dobbie and Lindsay Nolin/Suppliedīut Sleep No More is also a case study of the relationship – sometimes cozy, sometimes uneasy – between art and commerce. The piece continues to be markedly influential, sharpening New York’s interest in site-specific work and experiential events, a mild irony as the 1960s happenings that New York created seem a clear inspiration to Punchdrunk.Īn image from the 2009 launch performances.
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There are websites and blogs devoted to the show (and its ample nudity), as well as tributes on TV shows like Law & Order and Gossip Girl. The reviews – from critics and ordinary punters – are mostly ecstatic, and while the show’s American producers say, perhaps disingenuously, that they prepared for a run of only six weeks, Sleep No More doesn’t look like it’s closing any time soon. At each of the nine weekly performances, several hundred spectators (both Punchdrunk and the American producers, emursive, are oddly shy about giving precise numbers), who have paid between $75 and $170, not including cocktails, race around 100,000 square feet of space watching a wordless version of Macbeth as art-directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The McKittrick Hotel said its reopening plans will be done in compliance with the state and local government’s COVID-19 protocols and are subject to the approval of the NY State Department of Health and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office.Since it opened in New York in 2011, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, which shares premises with the Lodge and the Heath in a space known as the McKittrick Hotel, has become a theatrical sensation. “Sleep No More is produced by Emursive (Jonathan Hochwald, Arthur Karpati, and Randy Weiner, principals) in association with Rebecca Gold Productions. “Sleep No More’s” creative team features Felix Barrett (direction and design), Maxine Doyle (direction and choreography), Stephen Dobbie (sound design), Beatrice Minns (design associate), and Livi Vaughan (design associate). During their stay, guests may also enjoy live music and cocktails - the latter keeping them well-fortified throughout the 360-degree sensory experience. The production combines acrobatic choreography and a film noir soundtrack. Presented by Emursive, Punchdrunk’s “Sleep No More” allows audiences to move freely through the story of the scheming and power-hungry Thane of Cawdor and his wife at their own pace, choosing where to go and what to see throughout 100 rooms of densely-detailed atmosphere sprawling over 100,000 square feet of space.
The hotel’s rooftop garden bar and restaurant, Gallow Green, is currently open for dinner and drinks, and its production of “Speakeasy Magick” returned this summer. It will also reopen its velvet-draped speakeasy, Manderley Bar. The McKittrick Hotel, the dimly-lit, 1930s venue that the New York Times critic Ben Brantley once quipped looks like “what might have happened had Stanley Kubrick (of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and ‘The Shining’) been asked to design the Haunted Mansion at Disney World,” won’t just welcome guests back to see Lord and Lady Macbeth pull off some regicide. Shows will take place Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets for “Sleep No More” are now on sale for performances starting October 4. It’s the latest in a long list of cultural events, extending from Shakespeare in the Park to Broadway shows such as “Hamilton,” to set a date for its return. “ Sleep No More,” the groundbreaking and immersive reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” will resume performances this fall, becoming the latest show to announce its return after COVID-19 caused theaters and live events to go on a months-long hiatus.
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