(i) One witness statement in which Lennox is quoted as saying: While Lennox does not appear as a corporeal character within the McKittrick Hotel, his presence within the town of Gallow Green is remarked upon in several documents found in Malcolm’s detective agency, including the following lines from Act II, Scene iii: So, here I will briefly list some of the off-stage characters of Sleep No More and will explain their significance to the show, such as there is any. The McKittrick would be a dead place indeed if we weren’t presented with hints that the twenty characters we see regularly interacted (at least during their ordinary, mortal lives) with other, perhaps less disturbed, folks about town.
Oftentimes this means implying the existence of other, unseen characters who do or once did occupy the space. To contribute to the illusion that these spaces are “real” and “lived-in” requires a number of props that point to the existence of life outside of what we see in the show. The McKittrick Hotel, for all its artificiality in the face of some not-insignificant suspension of disbelief, is meant to represent a massive amount of space–a city, an asylum, a hotel, three residences, a forest and a graveyard. I thought I’d get myself back into the swing of things with a little chat about the unseen guests at our favorite urban auberge. Keep your smelling salts on hand, ladies (and gents). It’s been a damned long while, and it’s high time that Maxim de Winter made his long-awaited return to the Tumblrverse. All the same, stumbling groggily up and down staircases and around darkened hallways gives the night the sludgy, abstracted aura of a nightmare.Hello, my little cherubic jewels of the internet. The only caveat I would offer is to attend Sleep No More fully rested: You need your wits about you. A Shakespearean can walk about checking off visual allusions to the classic tragedy the less lettered can just revel in the freaky haunted-house vibe.
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I chose the latter, discovering a room lined with empty hospital beds a leafless wood in which a nurse inside a thatched cottage nervously checks her pocket watch an office full of apothecary vials and powders and the ballroom, forested with pine trees screwed to rolling platforms (that would be Birnam Wood). You can follow the mute dancers from one floor to the next, or wander aimlessly through empty spaces. troupe Punchdrunk, have orchestrated a true astonishment, turning six warehouse floors and approximately 100,000 square feet into a purgatorial maze that blends images from the Scottish play with ones derived from Hitchcock movies-all liberally doused in a distinctly Stanley Kubrick eau de dislocated menace.Īn experiential, Choose Your Own Adventure project such as this depends on the pluck and instincts of the spectator. Directors Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, of the U.K. Your sense of space and depth-already compromised by the half mask that audience members must don-is further blurred as you wend through more than 90 discrete spaces, ranging from a cloistral chapel to a vast ballroom floor. A multitude of searing sights crowd the spectator's gaze at the bedazzling and uncanny theater installation Sleep No More. To untimely rip and paraphrase a line from Macbeth: Our eyes are made the fools of the other senses, or else worth all the rest.
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