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Think of all the unspoken rules of the theater — sit quietly in your seat during the performance; don’t go wandering around on stage or poking your head behind the curtain — and now get ready to break them.

Sleep No More is the tale of Macbeth as you’ve never experienced it before. Here, inside three old Chelsea warehouses, all the world's a stage. The warehouses have been converted into “The McKittrick Hotel,” an abandoned 1930s property spread out over 100-plus rooms and six floors. Theatergoers are meant to wander through the space on their own, exploring each room and discovering one eerie scene after another: a hospital ward, a taxidermy room, a nursery-turned-crime scene.

Wordlessly, actors in each room and corridor perform the pivotal scenes in Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy — interpreted through a kind of film noir filter, and choreographed to a moody score that’s very Hitchcock.

Oh, did I mention you have to wear a mask? Guests are given Carnival-style masks to wear as they move around, and they’re asked not to communicate with each other. It can be unnerving at first, but it also gives you permission to commit to the experience. That means you can rifle around in Lady Macduff’s abandoned suitcase or have a go on the old-fashioned typewriter in the study.

If it all gets too much, you can always retreat to the bar for a drink. And yes, this, too, is part of the show. 

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