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Sleep No More
Sep. 1st, 2011 02:21 pmHelp me internets! I can't decide if I should go to Sleep No More. This has apparently been around for awhile, but I only recently heard of it, from several different people in the same week.
It is based on Macbeth, but rather than being a play with a stage and an audience, it is in an abandoned hotel, and the action of the play happens throughout the building. You follow the characters from room to room, and you can follow whomever you want. It's apparently mostly silent, with a lot of dance (and gore and full frontal). So it's a combination of a play, a choose-your-own-adventure book, and a haunted house.
- It is expensive ($75).
- The audience members spend the whole time wearing masks a la Eyes Wide Shut, which may be unpleasant after three hours (though, aesthetically, I agree with the choice).
- I am the sort of person who read choose-your-own-adventure books with the express purpose of reading every single page. (My family made maps for each book. It's a sickness.) So I'm sure that, whichever choices I made, I'd feel like I'd missed something important.
- Since you move from room to room, you are apparently being continually jostled by other audience members trying to get a better view. Also, there is running up and down rickety stairs. I am a taller than average person, but still.
- It is quite gorey. I have not done well with haunted houses in the past. At all. Granted, I haven't been to one since I was a kid, but this is because I have not done well with haunted houses.
+ It has gotten very good reviews.
+ It seems like one of those New York things--completely unique and unrepeatable. Just an entirely novel experience.
+ The ability to wander through a house where things are happening in every room just fascinates me.
+ I am dying of curiosity.
[Poll #1774929]
It is based on Macbeth, but rather than being a play with a stage and an audience, it is in an abandoned hotel, and the action of the play happens throughout the building. You follow the characters from room to room, and you can follow whomever you want. It's apparently mostly silent, with a lot of dance (and gore and full frontal). So it's a combination of a play, a choose-your-own-adventure book, and a haunted house.
- It is expensive ($75).
- The audience members spend the whole time wearing masks a la Eyes Wide Shut, which may be unpleasant after three hours (though, aesthetically, I agree with the choice).
- I am the sort of person who read choose-your-own-adventure books with the express purpose of reading every single page. (My family made maps for each book. It's a sickness.) So I'm sure that, whichever choices I made, I'd feel like I'd missed something important.
- Since you move from room to room, you are apparently being continually jostled by other audience members trying to get a better view. Also, there is running up and down rickety stairs. I am a taller than average person, but still.
- It is quite gorey. I have not done well with haunted houses in the past. At all. Granted, I haven't been to one since I was a kid, but this is because I have not done well with haunted houses.
+ It has gotten very good reviews.
+ It seems like one of those New York things--completely unique and unrepeatable. Just an entirely novel experience.
+ The ability to wander through a house where things are happening in every room just fascinates me.
+ I am dying of curiosity.
[Poll #1774929]