No Sleep, Must Click & Drag

[cos]

Seeing Sleep No More for a second time last night evoked xkcd Click and Drag. I was expecting to see many of the same scenes and settings I saw the first time, with a better understanding of what was happening. I was not expecting what actually happened: spending the majority of my time seeing scenes and settings I hadn't even known were there the first time. And even though I visited at least one floor this time that I know I never ventured onto at all last time, I also know there's at least one more floor I still haven't been to. Maybe more than one.

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[mangosteen]

One of the things I noticed in the NYC version, having brought a pocketable flashlight (and some discretion) with me, was that significant parts of the venue were "walled off" via lighting effects, primarily the lack thereof. There were passageways and room I would have never known about unless I made it a point to stop and point a flashlight to verify that there was no physical wall in a place where my mind inferred that one would be.

[cos]

Did some of these passageways lead to places you would not otherwise have been able to get to? Did things happen in those places?

In one place I saw an iron gate blocking the way to a large space, and then one of the characters showed us that you could squeeze through the side of the gate, and beckoned one of the audience to follow her, so I did so afterward. However, the space behind the gate turned out to have other passages to/from it that were less tricky.