Tag: site-specific

Transient Spaces: <em>The Hotel</em> at 47/49 Tanner Street

Transient Spaces: The Hotel at 47/49 Tanner Street

Since Punchdrunk debuted their iconic Sleep No More in 2003, the immersive hotel experience has become a subgenre of its own. Ana Malinovic looks at the latest example by emerging ...

by ana-malinovic • 18th October 201418th October 2014

New York Theatre Dispatch: <em>Play/Date</em> at Fat Baby, Lower East Side

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New York Theatre Dispatch: Play/Date at Fat Baby, Lower East Side

Play/Date, a collection of 25 short plays performed across the three levels of a bar and nightclub, could so easily have been a mess. Instead, says Tara Isabella Burton, it’s ...

by TaraIsabellaBurton • 21st August 201421st August 2014

Arts & Culture

Manderley, Revisited: A Personal History of Punchdrunk

On seeing their uncategorisable Sleep No More for the eleventh time, Tara Isabella Burton reflects on what Punchdrunk, the pioneering immersive theatre company, means to her.

by TaraIsabellaBurton • 25th May 201425th May 2014

<em>Litro</em> in New York: <em>And Then There Were None</em> by Roll the Bones Theatre Company

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Litro in New York: And Then There Were None by Roll the Bones Theatre Company

Half the wonder of And Then There Were None, an immersive adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, is getting to its top-secret location. But, finds Tara Isabella Burton, it’s worth the ...

by TaraIsabellaBurton • 23rd March 201424th April 2014

Arts & Culture

“Flee, Flee This Sad Hotel”: Tennessee Williams at the Langham Hotel and Pentameters Theatre

Tennessee Williams’s own wanderings ended in the plush Sunset Suite of the Hotel Elysée, but they’d started in flophouses and boarding rooms like this. Lauren Van Schaik Smith reviews two ...

by lvss • 28th February 201428th February 2014

Punchdrunk Love: <em>The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable</em> at Temple Studios

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Punchdrunk Love: The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable at Temple Studios

Tara Isabella Burton is a devotee of immersive theatre: when Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More was in New York, she saw it nine times. So how did their latest show, at ...

by TaraIsabellaBurton • 1st August 20131st August 2013

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