Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time. Long-running immersive show Sleep No More fades into the mist January 5, after more than a year of closing date extensions.
The show, based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, reimagined Shakespeare's classic as a quasi-dance piece with audience interaction. The Off-Broadway production began previews March 7, 2011. Fourteen years later, it has enjoyed more than two million attendees and has run for over 5,000 performances.
The masterminds of the production have been Emursive's Randy Weiner (The Donkey Show), Arthur Karpati, and Jonathan Hochwald—in association with Rebecca Gold Productions. Not able to find an existing venue to accommodate the show, an empty building in the Chelsea neighborhood was transformed into the McKittrick Hotel, a multi-level dining, nightlife, and entertainment venue.
Sleep No More takes a non-linear approach to its storytelling, allowing theatregoers to freely explore five floors of the venue, where scenes, tableaux, and scenarios play out, conjuring the world and themes of Shakespeare's bloody tale. Audience members don masks and must be silent during the experience. Participants are encouraged to open drawers, pull back curtains, read private notes and journals, and follow the performers. The production has co-direction and choreography by Maxin Doyle and sound design by Stephen Dobbie.
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