... [SPOILER] has murdered [SPOILER]!

[learnedax]

Last Thursday cat9 and I went (with a group of people, though that turns out not to matter too much) to see Sleep No More. It was creepy, and vivid, and grim, and I'm glad that I had the experience. But, after lengthy reflection, I don't think that I would want to go again, even ignoring the fact that the full run is sold out.

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[learnedax]

I guess what I mean by them being devoid of supernatural qualities is that I didn't see them signaling that something weird was going on, either through special effects or through actors' reactions. When I saw Banquo (or who I guess was Banquo) at the banquet he had a spot on his face, but everyone carried on as if he were any other guest, as far as I could tell. I guess the witches' lair was sort of special effecty, but I interpreted the strobe lights and frenetic dancing as more a metaphorical altered state than a specific spooky thing, possibly because everyone participated equally, rather than Macbeth playing the straight man for it.

Actually, come to think of it, it could just be that a lot of SNM is primarily amenable to metaphorical reading, rather than physical. On a physical level what happens with the witches doesn't make any sense - but for me the metaphorical level was too open-ended to connect back to something that would have an emotional or visceral impact on me.

I saw one girl get pulled into a one-on-one, but I didn't experience any. I was really surprised to read in your journal later that so many people seem to have had them.

[alexx_kay]

When the banquet is already being attended by a significant number of dead people and witches, the addition of one more ghost is less notable :)

The goat-headed demon and the bloody baby didn't strike you as supernatural?

I would estimate that there are on the rough order of fifty one-on-ones per night. I'm near-certain that there are fewer than a hundred. In an audience of 300, that's not so many. If you go several times, your odds go up, and there are steps you can take to further increase your chances.