Karpati, who has worked in real estate for years. "The production is really reliant on real estate," said Mr. Originally, Emursive was considering staging "Sleep No More" in Brooklyn, just because the producers knew they needed a lot of space and didn't know how much they could get. Punchdrunk is trying to create their own form."Īmerican producers Randy Weiner and Jonathan Hochwald, founders of Emursive, which stages the performance nightly at McKittrick Hotel. Weiner said that when he was younger, his father took him to lots of Broadway shows "and I got so bored of the form. It's funny how you witness people change as they become anonymous when they're wearing masks." Weiner described himself as a "very antisocial person." While working on the "Donkey Show," he asked the performers to "never ever" truly interact with the audience "because I don't like that." Though the show is certainly immersive, he described "Sleep No More" as "an opportunity to be by yourself in New York City, in these rooms. Somewhat ironically, considering his métier of interactive theater, Mr. It's the kind of experience you wouldn't want to miss." You can find yourself literally lost in the woods. Weiner saw a Punchdrunk production of "Mask of the Red Death" in London and decided "we have to do this in New York. "The goal is to make it more immersive and interactive." "We don't want to be limited by theater," Mr. Weiner has shepherded live entertainment in odd venues he is one of the owners of the Box, and produced, for instance, "The Donkey Show," a dance version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a nightclub.
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