![]() The letterpress prints and the full deck of cards are available for sale on their online gift store. We later adapted these cards to produce a series of large-scale limited edition prints-lllustrated, designed, and letterpress printed in-house. S leep No More was created by Punchdrunk and EMURSIVE at The McKittrick Hotel, among the best NYC venues for immersive experiences. Developing a full set of playing cards allowed us to explore our affinity for systems and frameworks. We combined key elements into collages and unified them stylistically with illustrations by Marco De Luca, creating a look inspired by antique playing cards. We worked closely with Punchdrunk set designers to explore a variety of themes and styles to compliment the SNM visual language, and worked through an iterative, critical process to assure that the artwork supported the SNM brand and experience. We identified multiple functions for the playing cards: as an introduction to the world of Sleep No More, an integral mechanism for managing audience flow-splitting up groups to enhance anonymity and a sense of strangeness-and finally as memento which fans use to spread word of the production by sharing their playing cards on social media. Emursive, their New York production company, asked to us to design business cards for The McKittrick Hotel, and playing cards that are handed out to Sleep No More attendees when they check in. Sleep No More is an immersive theatrical experience developed by the British theater company Punchdrunk, housed in what was several warehouses and then nightclubs in New York City’s Chelsea district. Punchdrunks Sleep No More is a prime example of immersive storytelling. That coupled with the mash-up of various unrelated source material and the narrative structure not necessarily being linear can make it pretty difficult to follow.īut, to be sure, all of the high points of Shakespeare’s Macbeth are there.Created by British theatre company, Punchdrunk, the critically acclaimed Sleep No More is an immersive, site–specific production of MacBeth, as viewed through a noir lens. Stephen Greenblatt et al., The Norton Shakespeare (New York: W. Tickets from: 112 Cast Photos Videos The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC) has announced its original theatrical experience Sleep No More will now begin on February 3, with an. Obviously, the issue becomes that audience members have very little to go on in terms if identifying the characters, and practically no spoken dialogue to help them figure it out. Each quote correspond to specific scenes in Sleep No More that clearly outline the Narrative of Macbeth’s tragic demise. ![]() However, the souvenir program included a page that featured 8 or 10 representative quotes from the Shakespeare text. ![]() One complaint I often heard about Sleep No More from people who didn’t “get it” was that they didn’t see how Macbeth was included at all. I assume you have already found the answer from someone else, but just in case: Holy Cow! I have no idea how long this question has been sitting in my in-box, I have been in a major time of transition in my life, and I am no longer living in NY, so I keep The McKittrick Hotel, Sleep No More, and all the amazing people I met through them compartmentalized so the gigantic hole in my heart doesn’t feel so brutally conspicuous, ![]()
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