Punchdrunk's Sleep No More

Masks, Unmaskings, One-on-Ones

Authors

  • Thomas Cartelli Muhlenberg College

Keywords:

Performance Studies, Macbeth

Abstract

This essay examines Sleep No More in the context of interactive entertainment in contemporary culture, with a focus on the production's much discussed "one-on-one" encounters between performers and audience members.

Author Biography

Thomas Cartelli, Muhlenberg College

Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College) is the author of Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations (Routledge, 1999) and of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience (Pennsylvania, 1991). He is co-author, with Katherine Rowe, of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen, a study of filmic appropriations of Shakespeare (Polity, 2006), and is currently at work on a book-length study of experimental Shakespeare performance and production.

ssue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2012. Image: Lady Macbeth cradles Macbeth who sits naked in a bloody bathtub. Masked figures look on.

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Published

2020-06-25

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2012): Fall/Winter

Section

Articles