The mistake wasn’t her fault, and it didn’t take long to correct. What story of loss or acceptance did they see in her profound stillness? For some guests that night, she was a performer. Unsurprisingly, she felt very self-conscious and did her best to look uninteresting. Sporting my SNM uniform (center): no one can resist the red dress paired with running boots.Īs my interestingly-attired friend sat on that couch without her mask, the audience started noticing her, and a small crowd formed.
#SLEEP NO MORE MASK PLUS#
Plus the performers can quickly confirm that it’s you that’s still following them. Bold, dressy clothing tends to get the actor’s attention. Now I advise all of my friends to dress distinctively for immersives. She sat on the couch and waited for her new mask. Luckily a black mask pulled her aside, pointed out the problem, and asked her to wait. She arrived but didn’t realize she had no mask, and there was no way for her to get it back behind the locked door set on the fourth floor. She bolted out of there, too, tailing Malcolm down to the mezzanine. But he had gotten behind in the scene, and when the bell tolled Duncan’s death (Malcolm’s cue to run), he bolted out of there even faster than usual. He removed her mask, as in all SNM one-on-ones, to facilitate a more intimate connection. Given the show’s large real estate and free-roam structure, audiences need to tell at a glance who’s a performer worth pursuing and who’s an audience member just screwing around.Īt one memorable performance, my close friend earned the Malcolm one-on-one. The most unusual rule on this list is “to wear your mask the entire time.” While Punchdrunk’s custom-made bautas do wonderful artistic work (empowering the audience with anonymity, making the otherwise dopey-looking audience look spooky), their primary purpose is practical. It’s no longer the experience it was designed to be. If more than 1% of the audience committed these behaviors, I’d stop going.
Right? And yet I will hear people talking to their friends, flipping their masks up, or fiddling on their phones in the stairwell (which despite appearances is the highest trafficked area in the entire McKittrick). (See my post on the importance of rules in immersive theatre here.) RULES FOR PUNCHDRUNK’S SLEEP NO MORE (NYC) But sometimes people go rogue, or more commonly, someone makes a mistake, and when a rule gets violated, the entire experience can break. 99.9% of audiences don’t want to break the rules.
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