Sleep No More
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, from the British troupe Punchdrunk, discuss creating the interpretive, interactive theater piece “Sleep No More.” Over 100 rooms are on display in a renovated space in New York’s Chelsea gallery district, and accompanied by an eerie soundtrack, masked audience members walk at through the rooms, where performers re-enact scenes from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”
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Comments [8]
Are Felix or Maxine familiar with the artist Pierre Huyghe? He staged three, successive, similarly participatory events in a defunct Parisian museum called the Musee National des Arts Traditionals et Populaires?
The synetic theater in Washington DC has been doing exquisite wordless adaptations of Shakespeare for some years now. Worth checking out if you're in DC. http://www.synetictheater.org/
At MoMA a piano played with a whole in it, at Geneva UN a painting dripping from the ceiling and this broken down play -- is there no end to breaking down form? Maybe a fresh building up of form of tradtion is what is really the next big thing.
At MoMA a piano played with a whole in it, at Geneva UN a painting dripping from the ceiling and this broken down play -- is there no end to breaking down form? Maybe a fresh building up of form of tradtion is what is really the next big thing.
Can you please ask where they sourced all the props? And what they're going to do with the props when the show is over? And what was to cost to build all this out?
Considering the inside-out nature of the "theater," are you allowed to say "Macbeth"? Or must you refer to him as "The Scottish Fellow"?
did felix and maxine draw any inspiration or influence from artaud's "theatre of cruelty?"
Word on the street is that you totally throw fake blood on some attendees. Like at a GWAR show? Is that for real?
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