Sleep No More

[oakenguy]

Wow.

Any Shakespeare play I walk out of with my ears aching a little from the techno music, a little dent on my forehead from the mask they make all the audience members wear, and my feet a little sore from all the running up and down stairs I did, is a good show.

The short version: 'Sleep No More' is a bizarre mash-up of a 'Macbeth' play, a LARP, and a haunted house designed by Stanley Kubrick, where the actors are in constant motion and the audience (in masks and silent, so it's like a busload of ghosts are following a few real people around) can either trail one, investigate the rooms, or have a nervous breakdown and go drink in the bar. Everyone in the Boston area who hasn't seen it should, and you should take me with you so I can see all the bits I didn't have TIME to see tonight.

The long version will have to wait until tomorrow, for I'm SO totally worn out. Watching Scottish witches drink half a bottle of bourbon and then take piggyback rides on the Devil is just exhausting.

Comments

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

In contrast, we had an absolutely awful experience. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, and if it sounds like something you'd like, if you hear about it and go "that's AWESOME!!", I don't want to discourage you... but if anybody out there has been thinking that it *doesn't* sound like something you'd enjoy, but you're being swayed to try it by all the universally glowing reviews, well, there is a dissenting opinion out there, and you might want to listen to your initial instinct.

Also, I know they wouldn't give a crap about this if I complained to them, but the exclusionary ablism of it (i.e., you have to be able to walk/go up and down stairs for hours -- I heard audience members in line outside making fun of some "old people" with canes they'd seen there the night before, stumbling around looking for a place to sit -- and also, what with that large rigid plastic mask, just don't wear your glasses; trying to deal with the mask over my glasses nearly triggered a migraine for me, and the stagehands who kept coming over to tell me I was wearing my mask wrong didn't help...) made me genuinely angry.

I am well aware that I am the minority opinion in this.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

Scottish witches shouldn't be drinking bourbon. Scotch, or the very least Drambuie. Sheesh, make it somewhat believable.

[clionona.livejournal.com]

Sounds awesome to me!
Thanks for sharing.

Why do I have to live in some small backwards town where nothing cool like this show happens? :P

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

I want to do that! Wish it would come to Toronto...or that Boston was a short trip on the TTC away.

[ngakmafaery.livejournal.com]

...one of my buddies endorsed this as fabulous, but I hadn't heard of it elsewhere...