Theatre Experience

In line with this assignment I would like to discuses an instance of a stage experience, the performance created and executed by the entertainment industry. The “product” offered at The McKittrick Hotel, named “Sleep no more” is an example of a pure experience (perhaps as any other theatrical performance). The main distinct aspect of the performance is a freedom in action - “audiences move freely through a transporting world at their own pace, choosing their own path through the story;” or, in other words, the guests of the show are engaged to an “active participation.” Moreover, the experience provided by the action can be defined as an immersion experience. While the performance is played by professional actors, in a given place, and according

The show does not provide a simulator of the environments offered as a part of the performance, instead the guests are placed “on the stage,” when they invited to “act” in their own way, by making personal observations and explorations. In terms of entertainment experience, the feelings and emotions induced by the show made the experience memorable and valuable. The show’s audience feels engaged in something specific, unordinary, different from traditional theater performance. The educational experience reflects in the very nature of the action, the Shakespeare’s classic Scottish tragedy, which allows visitors to gain knowledge about the performance through observation and to perchance a script of the show or a book with Shakespeare’s Scottish Play (Macbeth) at the theater’s store. Additionally, the store offers a variety of souvenirs (memorabilia) to purchase, to help its guests to associate their experience with physical items, which are also designed and presented in consistency with general theme of the show. “Sleep no more” is an instance of a coherent theme. The elements of the performance, the scenario of the action, the beauty and elaboration of every detail and the passion of every episode, all those elements are tied together by a generic theme – the classical Shakespeare’s mystery and tragedy. The guests of the show wear masks to cover their faces, and in a subdued light filling the interiors they look identical, they do not have any age or gender, they become silent witnesses of the actions – the integral part of the performance. The fact associated with the show is that its guests are offered with multiple opportunities to build their own, very personal experience, but, at the same time, in terms of its representation, the audience is deprived of