Why should the play "Sleepless Night" be brushed more than ten times?

"Sleepless" (English "Sleep No More") has been shown in China for more than half a year, and its 200th performance will be held soon. It is amazing that a play can perform 200 performances in less than a year. As far as I know, it has performed more than 70 performances.

Are we all crazy? How many times does a play have to be brushed?

And the cheapest ticket is 590 yuan, and the fast-track ticket to the weekend market is 770 yuan. Is there too much money to burn?

Although I am not so crazy about brushing more than 70 games and 60 games, I have brushed 8 games so far and bought the next batch of tickets for 10.

As for why?

Please allow me to open the song list of "I can't sleep" and tell you slowly …

When the music reminded me, I seemed to have crossed the dark winding path again and returned to the McKinnon Hotel.

"Welcome to Mandeli Bar. You are the first guests tonight. "

Sleepless Night is an immersive drama. The audience participated in the whole play as ghosts, and there were almost no lines in the play. It depends entirely on the actor's body and expression to interpret the role, so the requirements for the audience are very high, and they need to devote themselves to the performance.

For this reason, the play designed an opaque winding path; Designed a Mandeli bar full of emotional appeal, which makes people feel comfortable and relaxed; The white mask is to hide identity; Designed a suggestive guide; The design of the elevator is to put the audience in batches and deliberately separate the partners.

"This is a journey of exploring alone. The more curious, the more you gain. "

All this, in the words of internet people, is called "sense of ceremony", and in a big word, it is "putting on a show and making a whole set".

When I first officially stepped into this hotel, which reopened after years of sleep, I was even at a loss and even fell into three major tortures in my life:

Who am I?

Where am I?

What should I do?

But this consternation won't last long. Walking around casually, you will see a person without a mask appear in front of you, and the journey begins.

I saw an article before, which gave a very good definition: everyone in this drama is his own director, your eyes are the lens, and the route you choose is the complete plot of this drama.

When you choose to follow an actor, he interprets the role in his heart through his body and expression. You will feel his emotions and conceive your own understanding of the role in your brain. This is a drama under its own lens.

Different from traditional dramas, Sleepless Nights tells more than one story. The whole hotel is performing the plot in real time, and only a part of the plot is destined to be seen at the same time. Although there are two and a half cycles in the whole play, there are 24 characters in the play, and the performance venue is 5+ 1 floor (only actors can take the audience to the newly opened sixth floor). Obviously, it is impossible to watch all the plots at once. Therefore, the audience needs to focus on the immediate plot and understand the role.

And this is also forcing the audience to immerse themselves in the play harder. So this is the real "immersive experience".

The first time I watched Sleepless, I was thinking, why don't these actors make mistakes?

There are as many as 24 actors performing at the same time, and there are as many as five floors of performance venues. There is so much space. In this venue, the plot is happening at any time. The actors ran around and staggered in a fixed position. After performing the story together, they immediately rushed to another place to participate in the next story. Why is the actor's cooperation so precise?

Yes, I used the word "accurate". In my opinion, it is simply too difficult for such a performance to make no mistakes before and after. In case there is no actor in a plot, can't it continue? The butterfly effect is that the whole play will be in disorder.

Later, I discovered the reason why they don't make mistakes-music.

Every piece of music, every role will have a corresponding performance, and these concerts will make the actors' performances more exciting, make you and me more immersed and feel more profound.

When I heard "Hallelujah, I love him so much", my mind naturally showed the plot of Agnes and Malcolm's affair in the detective office.

When I heard "Boulder Buff", I naturally thought of a big party ball in the main plot.

When I heard my interesting Valentine's Day, Hekate, who suffered from mental torture, came into my mind.

The plot and characters are perfectly combined with music. When you look on, there is only one feeling-everything should be like this.

When you are really immersed in the play, all your performances will also be presented to the actors. Destined to stare at each other may be your chance to participate in this play.

Perhaps the most striking thing in this play is "1On 1" or "Little Black House". Except for the hero and heroine, most characters will have the opportunity to interact with the audience one-on-one.

When the actor turns to you and your eyes tell you your devotion, he will reach out to you. At this time, please let him/her take you into the independent world of two people through your hand. They will guide you with their limbs and then tell you part of the story. Only then do you really realize that you are a part of this drama, and you participate in it, no longer separated by a long distance or a whole screen. You really fit in.

Or, he/she asks you to help fold a dress, pass a bath towel and wipe your body. Then, give you a kiss. ...

By the second and third time, you will find that the actors have changed?

Different from other plays, an actor will play the same role in succession. In this "sleepless night", the actors will change roles. Actors play different roles. You think you can easily follow the plot by finding the last way, but suddenly you have doubts. So he's not him?

Yes, the actors have changed roles, and the roles have changed actors, so every time I go to see them, it is a brand-new experience. Different actors interpret the same role, and their interpretations are different. Every actor will interpret his own understanding and personality. Different roles are played by the same actor, which shows the skill and versatility of the actor.

Every time I attend, I have a brand-new experience.

Of course, there are more attractive things. ...

Every once in a while, the plot or interpretation will change a little, as if the play is alive and evolving. Hecate, the witch king who controls the hotel, is the owner of the reincarnation, but do the characters in the play know that they are going through reincarnation again and again? When we question ourselves, do we also spend time in samsara? Butterflies flapping their wings, a little fluctuation, what kind of influence will it bring in the end?

Not only that, the discoverable space of McKinnon Hotel is also expanding. When you follow the same character, you may enter a corner you have never been to before, and there may be more interesting plots here. ...

Back to the play itself, the actor's interpretation is extremely important, and this play has almost no lines, so all conflicts and emotions are expressed by dance!

In the ballroom, the main story actors gather together, and different characters have their own worries, but they dance completely different dances with the same dance music. The dance is wonderful, and what is more wonderful is the interaction between the characters.

Macbeth and his wife are in dozens of flat bedrooms, their limbs are staggered back and forth, jealousy and jealousy are overflowing and scattered, and their love story is being told.

Two men, locked in a dark room with only a chair and a chandelier, were filled with mutual suspicion and distrust. Who did something bad?

In Elysium, Hekate directed a play with three wizards, predicting Macbeth's bloodthirsty nerves and releasing them crazily.

Moreover, according to the main plot adapted from Shakespeare's famous tragedy Macbeth, key plots and facilities will be found in different locations of this hotel. For example, Shifting Forest is a breakthrough interpretation.

Of course, more details are not only in the interpretation of the actors and the promotion of the plot. And every room and every prop is worthy of the audience's serious exploration.

As long as you are willing to feel and devote yourself seriously, every detail will excite you.

I think that's probably why I've been watching this play.

Sleepless Night is poison. I am addicted to it and can't extricate myself. ...

The first floor echoes in my ears, and it's time to cross the dark road again. ...

"This is a solo exploration trip. The deeper you go, the closer you get to the surprise. "