http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/1192255/review-sleep-no-more
Sleep No More, as any of us can tell you who saw it in Boston, is an exciting experience which blasts open the possibilities for turning theater into a unique and active medium. In one positive review, it was described as “purgatorial maze that blends images from the Scottish play with ones derived from Hitchcock movies—all liberally doused in a distinctly Stanley Kubrick eau de dislocated menace.”
It occurred to me while reading this that interactive theater (especially this “menacing” sort) is a new take on the In-Yer-Face idea which we are reading now (Sarah Kane’s Blasted). Every so often, a change must take place in art which grabs the attention of people other than the artists; in the ’90s, that new thing was the explicit theater of Kane. Now, I believe, it is the Punch Drunk model of living the story.
