![]() Hotel, a luxury hotel which was built in 1939 and, according to the show's website, has been sealed from the public for 70 years-until now. Tomorrow they'll make their NYC debut with Sleep No More at The McKittrick The effect is spooky, an adult version of a child’s haunted house. At other points in the evening, you find yourself in an area devoid of performers or other audience members. Sometimes you enter a space and there’s action already going on - a fight, a dance, two characters menacingly circling each another. Punchdrunk’s artistic director, Felix Barrett, has filled a 1,500-foot disused warehouse surrounded by wire fencing with a series of rooms and cordoned-off areas: a large undivided space, punctuated by real trees is called the Forest a nifty re-creation of a Hopperesque American coffee shop is the Diner. ![]() (If you were lucky enough to catch The Confidence Man, you know the drill.) The Observer called it "one of the most astonishing events, not just in the theater, but in the whole of London," and reviewing Faust for the NY Times, Anne Glusker described it thus: Actors and musicians performed all the "scenes" simultaneously as spectators drifted freely through the vast space. The ambitious London collective scored a smash hit across the pond with their 2006 production Faust, which was presented in an abandoned warehouse turned into a mysterious, immersive dream world. For the first time, the acclaimed site-specific theater company Punchdrunk is performing in NYC.
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