They spent four months putting the space together to support that and to engage people who wanted to dig around the nooks and crannies. Open doors, eat the candy in the sweet shop. As of this writing the second half of April still has plenty of early slots open.Ħ) Rummage around as much as you like. But still, if you have a choice, book a night when you can be one of the first in. It’s a bit cheeky to charge the same price for a 7pm admission as an 8pm admission since the 7pm admission gets 50% more experience…bet you can’t guess when my slot was. all of the admissions at 7, 7:20, 7:40 and 8pm have to be out by 10pm. You’re really exploring the world of the play on your own and this is where a recent reading of it can help.ģ) Don’t buy a drink when you get there – you wait in a bar inside before going into the rest of the hotel, and you can’t take drinks into the rest of the hotel, so you will end up chugging your $8 Heineken which was already silly to begin with.Ĥ) Embrace serendipity but pay attention to lights and music – that will sometimes be your cue that something is about to happen in a space.ĥ) Book for an early slot – it can take three hours to see everything but the experience stops two hours after the last admission. You get a sense of what’s happening through the movements and the expressions, but there’s no language pulling you along that you can jack into and quickly get a sense of what’s happening and where you are in the story. (One hopes.) Also: there is no dialogue, at least none that I saw. Things that might otherwise seem willfully obscure will become clever and delightful. Even if you know the plot, you will be more tuned in to the references if they’re fresh in your mind, even if they’re only in your subconscious. In the moment, remember that that happened because that’s how you chose to do it.Ģ) Read the play beforehand. The last one sounds the most exhausting, so either decide that you want to do that, to experience something as close to the known narrative as you can get – or decide not to do that, and then take it lightly when you realise you may have missed a scene here or there. You could decide to follow Lady Macbeth the whole time, or to stay and see everything that happens in the ballroom the whole time, or do a quick runaround to get the layout (you’ll have to be pretty quick as I said, it’s six floors) to case the locations and then use your knowledge of the play to try to catch all the key scenes. Thus, as a viewer, you won’t see every single thing that happens in the building while you are there. (It is booking through April 30 at .)ġ) The whole idea of the show is that while the frame of a linear narrative can only see one thing at a time, in real life things can happen to different characters simultaneously.
So instead of a review I am writing up tips for anyone who goes after me. On balance I thought it was worth seeing, but I wish I had known more before going in, since I think I could have enjoyed it more. It would be an odd thing to write a review for, since I am the only person who will ever see the exact show I saw. Eventually, you/they will run into another character again, and you may then recognise what happens, or it may be something that wound up on Shakespeare’s cutting room floor (or that he never thought of in the first place). So when one scene you might recognise ends, the characters then go off to different rooms and go about their business, and you can follow them around as you like. Which is to say they have all the main characters of Macbeth, all walking around and interacting with each other to evoke the scenes of the play, but there is no offstage. They have taken over a hotel in Chelsea, and over 2-3 hours, dozens of rooms, and six floors, they put on something that takes the play Macbeth and builds it into much more. This is a show by the UK theatre group Punchdrunk – well, more of an experience than a show. This weekend we saw “Sleep No More” in New York.
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