12/27/2023 0 Comments Punchdrunk nyc sleep no more![]() ![]() There will be taxidermies, graves, candied confections, drawers filled with clues and tools, bloodied crime scenes, and, throughout them all, actors who will lure you into their own personal world of horrors and pleasures. Punchdrunk Theatre Company's latest immersive production " Sleep No More" is a weird mash-up of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hitchcock brought to life in installations that are straight out of a '30s film noir set. But when the haunted house in question consists of a 100,000-square-foot hotel decked out in the finest antique shop ephemera, and staffed with free-roaming characters straight out of Macbeth, we're definitely lining up. We either A) wanted to get the hell out of there because we kept getting scared shitless by the spook with the bad makeup job, or B) the spooks with the bad makeup jobs (and even worse acting skills) just made us laugh. Rather than combining Macbeth with American film noir references, the Chinese iteration combines the play with Chinese legends.Getting lost in a haunted house when we were kids was never an enjoyable experience.
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