![]() ![]() If you came with friends, each of you might piece together an entirely different experience, then meet at the bar to debrief afterward.īut the intimacy of Punchdrunk’s work, the freedom and eroticism and sensuous style, made it feel sui generis. ![]() Spectators can chase after the actors, enjoying wordless, dance-heavy scenes, or linger alone in luxuriant rooms - reading letters, sniffing herbs. A typical Punchdrunk show plunges masked audiences into sumptuous spaces and lets them choose where to go and what to see. Barrett had founded Punchdrunk in 2000, pioneering a type of environmental theater that transformed deserted buildings and disused factories into strange new worlds. It sounded mostly like a promise and a little like a threat.Īs Barrett tells it, “Sleep No More” first arrived in New York almost by accident. “Nothing’s going to wake you from the dream,” Felix Barrett, a co-creator of “Sleep No More,” told me during a recent video call. And after two years of a pandemic, will New Yorkers really want to come back to something this macabre? Knowing New Yorkers: probably. Even at that sparsely populated rehearsal, there were rooms that didn’t permit standing six feet apart.
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