Sleep No More

Synopsis: Radio programme documenting what it is like to experience pioneering British immersing theatre company Punchdrunk’s production of Macbeth, for which the company has transformed 100,000 square feet of New York City warehouse space into a meticulously detailed world a kind of Macbeth theme park. Punchdrunk artistic director Felix Barrett shows host Kurt Andersen around the set. Audience members are free to wander through the space and encounter performers as they pass through 100 meticulously designed rooms.
Language: English (United States)
Country: United States
Medium: Multimedia; Radio
Transmission details: 10 Jun 2011 (Channel: Studio 360)
Duration: 10:40

Notes: Transmission time unknown.
The programme is available to listen to or download at Studio 360’s website http://www.studio360.org/2011/jun/10/sleep-no-more/ (accessed 6/2011). The site also contains a slideshow of some of the set.
General: Studio 360 is an American weekly public radio program about media, the arts and culture hosted by novelist Kurt Andersen and produced by PRI Public Radio International and WNYC in New York City.
History: Studio 360 is broadcast on weekends on several terrestrial radio stations throughout the country, and is also available as a podcast via the programme’s website, pri.org, and iTunes. It can also be heard on XM satellite radio on the PRI blocks on XMPR, channel 133.
Reviews: Source: Studio 360 programme information at http://www.studio360.org/2011/jun/10/sleep-no-more/ (accessed 6/2011). Stage production discussed By Douglas Lanier in ‘Post-Textual Shakespeare’, Shakespeare Survey 64 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p. 154-158.

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