![]() ![]() Instead, the mingling mass of audience was divided and led into different rooms and the show began, proceeding room by room as each scene finished. What other characters might be floating around, just waiting to share clues to a riddle I could only guess at the outlines of?Īs it turns out, there was no riddle. Another woman, with an over-sized name tag pinned to her shirt, introduced herself and told me she had just finished an arts-and-crafts class around the corner, only further confirming my suspicions. She replied that they are "very, very, very, very lucky." This sounded ominous, I thought. I complimented her on how wonderful it was. I ate too much from the plastic bowls of pretzels, an odd counterpoint to the home's otherwise elegant interior, and spoke with an older woman who revealed to me that this was her home. Unlike Sleep No More, there are no Instagram-friendly masks here and so no easy delineation between actors and audience. Some of the most fun I had came before I knew that, in the minutes after I arrived but before the the audience was separated into passive groups, when it still seemed possible that everyone standing around awkwardly mingling in the living room was the show itself, was the magic. Now, property values are once again, as they say, through the roof.īut the roof and third floor of this particular home are off-limits to visitors. Staged in a beautiful Brooklyn Heights townhouse, the show's early dialogue sets the scene - the neighborhood is quickly established as a place where the relatively wealthy once lived, before it gradually became poor, and then middle-class. Shows of this kind are first and foremost about place, and the good ones convince you that the location was necessary to the performance. Versailles 2016, a revival of last year's Versailles 2015, is something altogether different. So when it comes to actors walking between, talking to, otherwise engage with and even touching you and your plus one, Sleep No More remains the only performance of its kind to make inroads with members of the general public. If you have heard of it, the cost is probably steep enough that you might have difficulty enjoying it, even if you do get a ticket. ![]() Immersive, non-musical theater is a gamble, but so is most theater for lots of people: if you haven't heard of a show, it might be a waste of time. ![]()
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