An Amateur’s guide to Sleep No More

An Amateur’s guide to Sleep No More

Sleep no More/ Facbook

I’m considered myself the adventurous type, one of my goals in life is to try new things. If your one of those types of people well then I have some good news.  For my friend’s birthday we and a few friends went to go see The McKittrick Hotel production of Macbeth under the name “Sleep no More”. Soon as you walk into the hotel you are swept up back in time to the 1920’s. On a side note they are get really funny about you having your cell phones out. They want to have some level of mystery and you cannot take pictures with your phone. The lobby in in style of a bar, where you can enjoy drinks before the show, I would recommend talk to the staff and find out what they recommend you would be surprised how outgoing they are. When they call you up to enter the Hotel you enter in a small room before an elevator where you receive your mask, this is where the journey starts so get your act together I’ve seen them kick people out who were to rowdy or loud .

Once on the elevator they hit different floors and let people out in groups, if you went with a party have a place to meet afterwards because you’re going to lose them throughout the show. The Hotel is roughly six floors each fully furnished with different scenes from Macbeth. Be careful then entire complex has dark lighting and it’s easy to walk into a door (because I did it and it’s not fun). The actors are the only ones not wearing masks and the goal is to follow them around, each actor offers a different experiences and while you may follow one remember other member of the audience may be watching another actor. What is great and also an annoyance is that for me I want to see all of it, the problem is that there is so much going on that it is almost physically impossible to be everywhere at once. A great thing about Sleep No More is that as an audience member the actors interact with you. Through what I’m calling one on one they will pull you out of the crowd and have private dialog with just you, usually leaving you with a small trinket, I highly recommend trying to get one of these experiences.

After the play is over and you shuffle your way out of the Hotel back into the lobby take some time talk to the people who you spent the evening with after all 3 hours just passed with them. The lobby still has live music playing, great drinks, when I went my friends have been there a few times already and were surprised about how much I got to see and we talked about our different experiences while at our stay at the hotel. This is a fun, bizarre, exhilarating, insanely fun experiences that I recommend everyone try.
Colin N.