Unlike a conventional play, in which all audience members share the experience of witnessing the same events on the same stage, Sleep No More provides the audience with a more fragmented, multi-layered and individualized experience. Immersion of audience Īudience members are invited to explore the world of the production in their own time, choosing for themselves what to watch and where to go. There were 18 characters in the 2009 production of Sleep No More, most of them taken directly from Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy, Macbeth. Relationship to Macbeth Īssistant director Paul Stacey says that "every line of Shakespeare's Macbeth is embedded in the multiple languages-sound, light, design, and dance-of Sleep No More." Characters It combined plot and characters of Shakespeare's Macbeth with characters, narrative, and aesthetic elements inspired by the films of Hitchcock, in particular Rebecca, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by English author Daphne du Maurier. Unlike a conventional stage play, Sleep No More is an immersive experience in which audiences are free to explore the world of the performance at will. The production was a new and expanded version of Punchdrunk's 2003 production of the same name which was performed in the Beaufoy Building, London, a disused Victorian school. It won Punchdrunk the Elliot Norton Award for Best Theatrical Experience 2010. Based on Punchdrunk's original 2003 London production, the company reinvented Sleep No More in a co-production with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), which opened at the Old Lincoln School in Brookline, Massachusetts on October 8, 2009. Sleep No More is an immersive theatre production created by British theatre company Punchdrunk. Old Lincoln School, Brookline, Massachusetts For the 20 productions, see Punchdrunk (theatre company) and Sleep No More (2011 play).įelix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, with the Companyĭuncan, Malcolm, Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff, Porter, As muscular and searing in her deliberate use of language as Albee and Miller at their best as acidic as Clare Boothe Luce’s iconic play The Women and patron saint to blockbuster hits like Sleep No More -Fornés’s Fefu and Her Friends is an invitation to a theatrical experience like none other.įor our full COVID-19 safety policy for Fefu and Her Friends, click here or download here. Stories and histories come into play as you happen across conversations as Fefu’s bohemian and raucous cohorts gossip, question, flirt, provoke, and ultimately reveal (or hide?) the universal understandings between women. Utilizing the multi-storied, multi-roomed Strand Theater as non-traditional theater space, audiences will be broken up into four groups that independently tour Fefu’s home. An innovation of immersive theater, Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés ’s rapturous comedy-drama allows the audience to be a fly on many walls in this unconventional tale of eight women gathering at a New England country home in 1935. Hailed as game-changing, provocative, and genius, Fefu and Her Friends is one of the most influential-and invisible-plays of the 20th century.
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