“Lady Macbeth’s bedroom is stark, linear, grand, with huge windows. “One important contrast is between the Macduffs and the Macbeths,” Vaughan explains. The scent of cured skins provides an extra sensory layer in some spaces others are redolent of caramel, pine, or cardboard.
She’s the design associate responsible for the macro perspective versus Minns’s micro. “We always have taxidermy in our shows,” Livi Vaughan says with a laugh.
As Barrett declares, “A space without detail is a character without depth.” “There’s so much paranoia around the Macbeth characters, so we researched different types of voodoo-esque things.” Resulting from that research, myriad minutia conceal meaning upon meaning: crosses made of cutlery planted in piles of?salt, parcels containing ticking clocks, locks of hair pinned on cards, session notes by Lady Macbeth’s psychiatrist, in script redolent of the 1930’s and ’40’s, like most of the furnishings. “We sit in?the space and try to make it real-go into the characters’ persona and think about how they would have felt,” she says. (Well, mine at least.) Interfering with the decor is intensely rewarding because of the insane degree of the detailing.ĭetail is the department of design associate Beatrice Minns.
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A vital feature of the experience is the license to rummage, every interiors addict’s dream come true. Indeed, audience members often abandon the actors in favor of exploring. “Even if there were no performers, I would hope the show would stand up.” The story is inside the walls,” Barrett says. “The way we build it, every single space has a story to tell. It’s sensory overload for maximum emotional impact, and Sleep No More’s gorgeous rooms, crammed with multilayered detail, may just represent the ultimate expression of the interior designer’s art: narrative decor. The 100,000 square feet inside is the setting for Sleep No More, a near-wordless, pitch-noir Macbeth adaptation in which the buildings themselves are the stars-despite astonishing body-and-soul performances by a 30-strong cast organized by the London theater group Punchdrunk.įounded in 2000 by Felix Barrett, Punchdrunk is the game-changing pioneer of “immersive” theater, in which audiences are decanted into a set to wander at will and experience close encounters with intersecting plots.
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The Thane of Chelsea: Sleep No More Takes Over the McKittrick Hotelįor most of this year, New York’s theater world has been abuzz with chatter concerning a series of interiors in three Chelsea warehouses collectively rechristened the McKittrick Hotel.
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