Sleep No More | |
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Written by | Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, with the Company |
Characters |
Duncan, Malcolm, Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff, Porter, |
Mute | most of the characters |
Date premiered | October 8, 2009 |
Place premiered | Old Lincoln School, Brookline, Massachusetts United States |
Original language | English |
Series | Best of Both Worlds |
Setting |
Scotland, |
Official site |
Duncan, Malcolm, Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff, Porter,
Lady Macbeth,
Lady Macduff,
Male Witch,
Two Female Witches,
Hecate,
The Second Mrs. de Winter,
Mrs. Danvers,
Bellhop/Taxidermist.
Speakeasy Bartender,
Man in Bar,
Annie Darcy,
Elsie Price,
Scotland,
Sleep No More is an immersive theatre production created by British theatre company Punchdrunk. Based on Punchdrunk's original 2003 London production, the company reinvented Sleep No More in a co-production with the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), which opened at the Old Lincoln School in Brookline, Massachusetts on October 8, 2009. It won Punchdrunk the Elliot Norton Award for Best Theatrical Experience 2010.
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. 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. 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.