"Darn! I missed the orgy." I can count myself among those who missed this part, but I know enough of Macbeth to understand that chasing Lady Macbeth may be somewhat important.
Trading notes after the fact will reveal that some people experienced more or less of the production, i.e. Sleep No More has become enough of a sensation that tickets have been hard to acquire, and the production has been held over multiple times. After a passage into darkness before the spaces unfold, the journey of some two hours duration is all your own. The Venetians of the 18th century wore masks on the streets for months, a way to protect personal identities and slip through fixed social boundaries. The bearer of the ticket will be handed a card from a deck of cards, and when the number is called, perhaps after downing a quick drink at the bar, be handed a mask to wear for the duration. 27th St, tricked out in such detail that I longed for a second visit, necessitates checking conventions at the door. The immersive experience by the UK's Punchdrunk company members, with their exquisitely precise choreography and their site-specific fictional space of the hotel on W. This is no ordinary experience, as you may have gathered, with no way easy to express in a conventional third person review. I eventually found the cool space I was looking for, the refreshingly clammy graveyard. As I made my way through a hallway of taxidermy specimens - this is the Macbeth world of nature gone awry, after all, I scared only myself as I caught a glimpse of the masked Venetian in the mirror. The mood-setting music, reminiscent of the great Bernard Hermann scores, filled every meticulously detailed space, shaping the suspense.
My body vaguely remembered the location of the cold and damp room I had encountered earlier, somewhere back before the bar fight in the warehouse or that scene with the girl in the phone booth.īy then, I had abandoned any attempt to keep up with a conventional storyline from Macbeth, even after the sublime slow-motion choreography of the erotic banquet scene, in favor of improvisational explorations through this fantastical dreamscape of hotel rooms - part Hitchcock, part Kubrick, and part graphic adventure game. The atmosphere was so musty, so hot, and so itchy under the plastic plague doctor masks we were all wearing, I thought I might be forced to take off my clothes or simply pass out.Īt the end of the song, one made especially haunting in context of this personal mystery theater mashup of Macbeth and film noir, I made an escape through the dark space to the staircase in search of cooler air. After your stay in the McKittrick head to the Gallow Green the roof bar for after drinks and bite to eat, you may just run into a few of the actors for a chat.Somewhere deep into Sleep No More, a site-specific immersive theatrical production at The McKittrick Hotel in Chelsea, I came upon the sight of a well-dressed crooner lip-syncing Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" on the stage of a dimly lit and tattered cabaret.
Wear comfortable shoes as you will be moving around allot, do not wear jackets or coats as it does get warm and always try to maintain eye contact with the Hosts. From here your are given strict instructions to follow as well as your Viennese mask for your stay in the McKittrick Hotel. Our room key was called out and we we ushered into the waiting area for our elevator. The Manderley Bar is quite quaint and cozy, friendly staff/actors greet you and maybe an absinth if your'e lucky.
CABARET NYC SLEEP NO MORE PROFESSIONAL
All very professional so far from Security, Concierge and desk clerks. Upon arriving we were greeted with a personal coat check in with the concierge and received our "room key". After giving me the details from a friend of ours I booked as Guest of Maximilian for two. I was first told of SNM some 4 years ago, my partner had suggested but was concerned that I might not like it.
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