April 28th, 2014

I will Sleep No More until I equal this kind of work.

So while the day to day activities of Hedgerow life keep me in Rose Valley and Media, Pa, I have begun to use my free time wisely and embark on adventures...so to speak. This time the mark was New York, and the purpose was something I have been dying to see for years: Punchdrunk's Sleep No More. Oh. My. God. Sleep No More is everything great and powerful about theatre. The environment seduces you almost immediately. The audience is swallowed by the show. The actors pull you into their story, and you have no idea where its heading. Yes, we know it's Macbeth, but every moment, every detail is riddled with mysteries. You are the camera. You can follow any storyline you wish, and you can shift at will. Sleep No More allows us to lose ourselves in a nightmare. From the bar to the banquet scene, this show ignites in me everything I love about live performance. The story was incredible (after all it is Shakespeare), the actors were intense, the moments were dripping with stakes.  It is shows like this that refill the tank and remind me of why I am in love with live performances. 

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