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Sleep No More

Sleep No More: an immersive theatrical experience

Before you enter, everyone in the audience has to wear a white creepy mask and you can’t take it out during all the show.

In the fictitious 1939 McKittrick Hotel, located in Chelsea district in New York City, you can experience a unique immersive theatrical play called Sleep No More !, based on Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. It’s not cheap (more than $100 ticket), but it’s totally worth it because you are inside the play and you can move freely seeing whatever you decide.

Waiting in the line outside the building can be like waiting for the line to enter a New Year’s party in a big disco, but forget about that, once you are inside you enter into a dim lit space with a very deep sound. It’s the pre-experience. They get your coats and you get your tickets. Then you get into a maze likely black corridor, pretty perturbed because you can barely see anything and there is still that deep music. You end up in a bar whose design is a mixture of late 1930’s American aesthetic with classic haunted house ornamentation. The waitstaff is accordingly dressed, beverages look like poison and there is even a woman that can read your future.

You wait until you are called to enter the play. Before you enter, everyone in the audience has to wear a white creepy mask and you can’t take it out during all the show.  This is to be differentiated from actors, that doesn’t wear a mask, while the atmosphere created with these masks is so intriguing. You get into an elevator and everyone is dispersed at different levels. So if you are going with a group of friends forget to be together.

Each floor has different spaces (a cemetery, a street, a hospital, a ballroom, etc.) and actors are in different locations. You can follow the actors or not. They may interact with you and even lock you into a room and who knows what could happen. Special effects are really good, actually, when you buy tickets they warn you that «guests may encounter intense psychological situations»…

I would rather not tell more about Sleep No More because you have to live your own experience and create your own story there! By the way, at the end of the show, you can have a drink in the ‘hotel’ bar while you discuss the play with your friends and you can take home the mask!

Miguel de la Ossa

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