neroallthings.blogg.se

What would you say your main role has been? Doyle’s keeping busy-Punchdrunk is opening a show for children at the Manchester International Festival at the end of July, and another show for adults in London later on-but she found time to chat from home in the UK.ĪLEXANDRIA SYMONDS: Sleep No More is such a completely different experience than any other theater I’ve seen in New York.

The choreography is the work of Maxine Doyle, who with Felix Barrett directed the show, which took up residence in the McKittrick after a successful run in Brookline, Massachusetts. Audiences are encouraged to rifle through drawers, open cabinets, and fully immerse themselves in the reality of the show-and to follow the performers, who act out themes and scenes from the play in balletic, intensely physical style. It’s a site-specific interpretation of Macbeth (with some Hitchcock Rebecca thrown in for good measure) that fills every nook and cranny of the hotel’s six stories with evocative, intricately detailed sets-a mental ward, a cemetery, a ’30s-style hotel, that fateful banquet hall. Sleep No More, a production of the Emursive and Punchdrunk theater companies, is a dramatic experience unlike any other in the city. The McKittrick is a beautiful, haunting space and it’s perfect for the project that’s reopened it, 72 years later. Completed in 1939 and designed to be the most luxurious hotel in New York, it was condemned and shuttered two days after the beginning of World War II.

Tucked deep into an unremarkable block on West 27th Street sits the McKittrick Hotel. A SCENE FROM SLEEP NO MORE (THOSE IN MASKS ARE THE AUDIENCE MEMBERS).