The entire show doesn’t unfold in a perfectly linear fashion. You can see what might have been going on in a different part of the hotel while something else totally different is taking place down below. This way you can study the entire show from multiple angles, sometimes literally. The three-hour performance is actually a one-hour loop performed three times. There are over 100 rooms where you can follow the action and discover hidden secrets. The show takes place in the fictional “McKittrick Hotel,” which has many different levels to explore. Unlike typical theatre, where you sit in one seat for the entire show and watch the plot unfold in front of you, ‘Sleep No More’ acts more like a choose your own adventure. The show contains almost no dialogue but is filled with interpretive dancing to convey the scenes or stories. It is loosely based on William Shakespeare‘s Macbeth but set in a 1930’s film noir aesthetic. ‘Sleep No More’ is an interactive and immersive stage production. And I can safely say it was the best money I ever spent! Therefore, I found it hard to validate spending $100+ per ticket when no one would tell me anything about it! But finally, after much back and forth and some encouragement from my friend, we bought our tickets. Anyone who has gone to see it is oddly secretive about the experience. But the price tag always made me hesitate. I had heard about ‘Sleep No More’ from various friends who had gone to see it and just raved about it. Sitting here in the dead of winter, during the pandemic, I have time and time again closed my eyes and “ dreamt I went to Manderley again…” I am dreaming of the time when I can return to New York and see ‘ Sleep No More‘ again. Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep” – the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast. Thank you for supporting the Creative Adventurer* ![]() “We carefully train staff regarding workplace safety, provide resources for immediately reporting any concerns and, in the rare instance beyond our control where patrons may have violated our policies, take immediate action to remove them.*I may be compensated if you purchase through any affiliate links on this site. ![]() ![]() “After seven years of successfully hosting two million guests and producing a critically acclaimed theater production where our colleagues overwhelmingly feel supported and inspired, it is wrong to make generalizations from a handful of incidents where patrons may have behaved inappropriately,” the McKittrick Hotel said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. The McKittrick, however, has contested these claims, and insists that the production has a healthy system of reporting complaints against audience members. “Once you gave people a mask, it was carte blanche to let them do whatever they wanted,” a former steward told BuzzFeed News. Several said they did not report individual instances of misconduct because because they did not know the proper procedure, or simply because it was so pervasive. While some employees told BuzzFeed News they felt safe in the the show, others described being groped, grabbed, and harassed by audience members, and not having their concerns and suggestions for safer policies heard by management. BuzzFeed News reported 17 incidents of groping or sexual misconduct during the show, seven of which Sleep No More acknowledged while contesting the rest. Some of the 30 people interviewed claimed that the nonunion Off Broadway production, run by the production company Emursive at the McKittrick Hotel, implicitly encourages patrons, who put on masks throughout the (simulated) sex-and-death-filled performance, to act inappropriately, and doesn’t sufficiently provide protections for performers. ![]() Current and former performers in Sleep No More, the popular immersive staging of Macbeth, described being subjected to and feeling at risk of sexual assault from audience members in a report from BuzzFeed News.
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