9/16/2023 0 Comments Punchdrunk sleep no more new york![]() So that’s one way of interpreting the text. As you’d imagine, everyone’s bored, tired, dreary. We read some texts from The Cherry Orchard, the Chekhov play, in our classroom with the lights on. In the morning we had a class with an absolutely inspirational teacher. Chapter 2: The first spark.įELIX BARRETT: I was 15. I’m your host June Cohen, and on this episode, you’ll hear original music composed for piano and organ. In 2011, the show arrived in New York City, where it became a hit, and as of 2022, continues today after a 2-year pandemic break. Sleep No More was first produced in 2003 in London. And all the time you’re surrounded by the actors and by other mask-wearing guests. You may stumble into the bathroom, with Lady Macbeth lounging in a bathtub. You wander freely through rooms with antiquated decor. You wait briefly at a stylish bar before being led into a dark labyrinth of a building. When you first enter the performance space, you’re given a white plastic face mask (picture a theatrical mask, not a COVID mask). And it’s a non-linear telling, with the scenes from the play unfolding simultaneously all throughout the building. The performance itself is the story of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but almost no words are spoken. It’s an immersive theater experience that takes place over the course of 3 hours inside a building that looks and feels like an old hotel. And let me describe it for those who haven’t been. Sleep No More is Punchdrunk’s most famous and longest-running show. Felix is the artistic director of Punchdrunk, a British theater company that specializes in immersive storytelling. And you’ll learn his secret tricks for energizing a cast and crew about a new project.Īnd here’s what you need to know about Felix and Sleep No More. You’ll hear what qualities he hunts for in a new location - one that will transport an audience and cultivate a sense of magic. ![]() But the takeaway is universal: When you focus on the tiniest details - again and again - you have the biggest impact on your audience.As Felix takes us on the journey of developing Sleep No More, you’ll hear how he builds entire mysterious worlds by getting one finicky detail at a time just right. It’s Felix’s personal story of inventing an entirely new, experimental form of theater. JUNE COHEN: That’s Felix Barrett, and he’s about to tell us the story of creating Sleep No More, the immersive theater experience that’s run for more than 10 years in New York City. popping up from a hiding place behind the couch. But we knew the way to the very heart of it. It was almost like an impossible cipher, and you’re trying to find the secret room, which is the end goal, where my friend and I would go and have our snacks and feel pleased with ourselves for having arrived there, knowing that no younger sibling could ever find it. You could slide across bits of timber or old bits of furniture, a tabletop, and block pathways. ![]() Look at this.” I peeled a cardboard box to the side and revealed a dark foreboding entrance, a labyrinth with tunnels, and dead ends, and blind corners, and a sense of threat. And she said, “But you haven’t done anything at all.” And we said, “But aha, we have. We took everything out of the attic, absolutely everything, installed a base, put secret passages in, and then put back the junk on top, so it looked exactly the same, as messy as it was before.Īnd Mom was horrified when she’d come back and find the attic trashed. ![]() She was like, “Oh, boys, I’m so touched.” We didn’t really mean it that way. We told my mom we were going to tidy the attic. I remember once with my good friend, Alex Cardell from six doors down the road, we were probably about 13. So the deeper you delve into it, the more you uncover. ![]() The attic was always seeded with this absolute air of mystery. There’s these magic tricks - vanishing mystery boxes where you can drop a coin in, and because of the mirrors, it evaporates. In this attic, there was a collection of artifacts from lost years: furniture, there was probably some taxidermy, my mother’s mug collection. A young Felix Barrett with his father, a magician. And all the remnants of those tricks are in the attic. He was fine, but the tricks all got muddled, and he never did a magic trick again. FELIX BARRETT: My dad used to be a magician, and he was a magician until there was a crash. ![]()
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