Also you have to fully mask up and it gets boiling in there so it’s thoroughly uncomfortable! Overall, I came out feeling like I’d been scammed and wanted the 3 hours of prime NYC time back. You also need to be fairly fit to keep up with the characters sprinting up and down 4 flights of stairs. WARNING: the place is bloody dark and really easy to walk into things so not for those with any sight impediments. Some interestingly bizarre interpretive dance and random nudity that was completely unnecessary, in my opinion, but I guess they need something to lure in the crowds. I ended up watching a bloke fiddle around with some bones for 15 minutes, hoping it would get interesting. Tickets are clearly oversold so once you are in, it’s a melee to follow the interesting characters and no one is adverse to elbowing you out of the way You are shown to the bar, which is cool - prices are extortionate for a drink and you have to guzzle it down to be ready to enter the “hotel”. Quite frankly, extortionate to watch a uni performance - perhaps I missed the point but at very few points could I get any semblance of Macbeth which the show is purported to be aboutĮxperience: ridiculous queueing to get in - arrive at 3 and you’ll be lucky to get in for 3:30 so it’s not actually a 3 hour show. Price: we paid a discounted price of $125 for the 3pm show. Fans of surreal, dark theatre may enjoy it and I'm sure plenty did but it wasn't for me. I chose to sit down and rest for a lot of it and was happy when it all ended.only to have to queue for another 20 minutes to retrieve my coat. probably due to all the running up and down stairs. One fellow audience member fell asleep and another fainted. Once it does occur it can be very good.or just completely dull. But none of it really makes sense.as you really only get to see little bits of the action. At times it feels like you are chasing actors and battling with other 'audience' members to get a view. There are a lot of people in the event with action occuring in random places. Once in, eventually, there is a bit of time to grab a drink.before you are set loose. This event is not cheap.but they take the opportunity to charge you 4dollars for hanging up a coat which seems a bit unnecessary. The bad.had to que for 40 minutes to get in. Not sure…ģ) The very end of the show, which I found powerful and shocking the first time, was played much safer in last night’s performance, and it just did not have the same effect. I’m not sure the reason for this except that I thought perhaps some of the detail/objects were removed from the rooms to prevent pilfering, and the lights were turned down so the rooms wouldn’t look bare. I’m thinking of the Macbeth bedroom and the sanatorium room with the cots. I do think the experience is more powerful/intense if you go it alone.Ģ) Certain rooms/scenes were so dark that you could barely see what was going on. This could have been because they were running late with getting everyone in due to checking everyone’s Covid tests and vaccination cards. But some things about the show had also changed from the pre-Covid era.ġ) They didn’t try to separate couples/groups, and they didn’t have you hang out in the bar at the beginning. My experience was different the second time around, partly because I knew the lay of the land, had some things in mind that I wanted to focus on, and felt slightly more comfortable in the environment. I had such FOMO the first time that I couldn’t wait to go back to see those scenes I heard about but missed (including the techno party scene). But the most intriguing part of it is that there’s always something else to explore. The physicality of the acting/movement is impressive, and somehow the actors manage to maneuver around the audience. Sleep no More is completely transporting (and creepy). Last night I returned for a second time, seeing the newly reopened and slightly revised version of the show. Looking forward to welcoming you in Athens.I attended Sleep No More for the first time in early 2020–right before it was shut down due to Covid. The hospitality by the officers and members of the Hellenic Society of Hypnology, as well as the great venue in the centre of Athens where the Congress will take place, assure that you will certainly have a really memorable time while with us. We trust that the scope of the programme, which encompasses the whole field of sleep medicine, from basic science to psychiatry, to psychology, to neurology, to pulmonology, to surgical and oral procedures, to technological aspects, to subjects on the relation of sleep to law and regulations, will serve the subject in a mostly comprehensive way and benefit both the discussants as well as the audience who will attend.īefore closing, we would like to thank you for coming to our city, to wish you all a joyful and scientifically satisfactory experience, and to also wish that you will enjoy your time in our country.
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