After checking bags and coats, each audience member is handed a numbered playing card and directed to the hotel bar, the Manderley, where tasty signature cocktails are available prior to entry. Of course, there are a few constants to the experience. As a result, unlike others of my reviews, I’ll shed the anonymity of assessing “an audience’s” likely response and revert to the first person. What I experienced will be entirely unlike what any other hotel guest will encounter the order of events, items seen, and spaces breached will be unique. The “experience” – because there’s no fixed narrative through line – is difficult to encapsulate. It’s a standalone sensory immersion of sorts that’s likely to leave a deep impression.
The piece, which is based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with a Hitchcock-inspired cinematic twist, does not require a previous knowledge of its source material, though a basic knowledge of the play may offer rewards. SLEEP NO MORE continues the momentum established by DEAD SLEEP, Iles's last work, and will leave both old and new readers clamoring for his next work and, incidentally, faithful.Out, damned spotlight! Photo: Yaniv SchulmanĬheck into the newly opened McKittrick Hotel at your own risk, for what’s fair is foul for sure in Punchdrunk’s latest interactive environmental theatrical experience, Sleep No More, now playing in a vast and intricately decorated converted warehouse space in Chelsea through June 4th. The result is a tale that is compelling, haunting and, ultimately, unforgettable. Iles drives this point home repeatedly, all the while ratcheting upward the suspense quotient. No event takes place in a vacuum every action has a consequence, many of them unfortunate and unintended. Iles manages a nice balancing act here, combining elements of suspense, fantasy, horror, and romance into what is by turns entertainment and a cautionary tale for our time.
When another tragic event occurs, Waters realizes that this is an affair that can only end in one way. Her obsession with him is as strong as it ever was, however, and Waters soon finds himself consumed by that passion, to the point where his entire life may be destroyed. Waters soon finds himself again involved with his old flame. Sumner knows all of Waters's secrets and all of the intimate memories that they shared together. Yet, it seems that Mallory, as Eve Sumner, is back, as improbable as that may be. Candler had disappeared after Waters married, only to reappear, tragically, as a murder victim in New Orleans. That one person is Mallory Candler, who had been Waters's lover in college but whose obsession with him had ultimately driven him away from her.
She knows things about him, in fact, that only one other person knows.
While coaching his daughter's soccer game, he happens to notice Eve Sumner, a local real estate agent who is a total stranger to him but who knows him very, very well. SLEEP NO MORE concerns John Waters, husband and father, a fairly successful entrepreneur who is relatively content with his lot in life. I'm going to guarantee you one thing, however: after you read Greg Iles's SLEEP NO MORE, fooling around will never cross your mind. Guys, unfortunately, come equipped with two brains, and only enough blood to handle one dumb things accordingly happen. standing over you with a pair of hedge clippers, a blowtorch, and a pair of pliers. There are also plenty of good, sound sociological reasons why it shouldn't go any further than that, not the least of which is the danger of waking up in the middle of the night to find the Mrs. We're hardwired for it, and there are good, sound biological reasons why we do it. It's impolite to do it obviously when you're with your significant other, but it happens (even such a master of the discreet glance as myself got caught doing it yesterday). Guys look at other women, and they do so with lust in their hearts.
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