Fantastic! Macbeth is probably my favorite Shakespeare and I was riveted, trying to decode the plot and follow the right people. Bone up on the play if you don't know it; it will be a far richer experience.

this was an amazing thing to experience. i went back a second time and found it just as interesting and well done the second time around, and i found and experienced things that i hadn't the first time. i found that my companions that went in with an open mind, were endlessly curious and went along with the production enjoyed and appreciated it more than those that went it with a preconceived notion as to what it should be.

About "Sleep No More": You might have been taken by the decor and the fact that you were let into the "VIP floor", however I believe the show is a big hoax based, as usual in the USA, on good marketing (that includes shows like yours). The lack of structure made my experience totally frustrating. Nothing ever happens (except some "dancing" that makes very little sense and that is not really engaging or particularly beautiful). Of course the dancers are all professional and good, but the "choreography" is dull and boring. Where was MacBeth anyway? I mean the story... of course the only thing one could see about the story was MacBeth getting naked (we always need someone naked, right?) and washed up by his lady in the tub... very engaging indeed... I started the experience with curiosity and the will to have "a new theater experience" but I finished angry, very tired, and wanting my money back (lots of money by the way). That show is not at all art. It is only a clever use of space and people's will to interact with performers. Your guest mentioned "mystique". I honestly did not feel any of that.
In stead of giving room and advertise for this, wouldn't it be so much better to talk about the incredibly good ballet season, that is happening now at ABT, for example? Art, real skills, and even entertainment are happening somewhere in NY, but certainly not in that former hotel...

One thing not mentioned ... audience members who have the temerity to lift their masks due to trouble breathing -- they are suffocating in the heat and poorly ventilated rooms, especially after trudging up and down stairs -- will be asked to leave by black masked security personnel whose identity and role is entirely unclear until you are being escorted to the nearest exit by a phalanx of the "brown shirts" who seem barely 20! Would've been nice to know before plunking down a hundred bucks!

Punchdrunk as a company may indeed be 'pioneer's in the art of immersive theater', but this is hardly New York's first experience with the genre. I saw the play Tamara back in '87 at the armory up on 66th and Park, where we followed the actors around through 3 or 4 different floors, and one could choose whom to follow, and change your mind in mid-scene. That was my first experience of this type of staging, and it takes some getting used to...

Didn't know where to go or where to look--I just sort of bumbled around in the pitch dark---when there was some sort of event worth seeing others around me rushed to it so I was unable to see it anyway--sort of being the last one at a bus stop. There were teases of visual imagination--but again, very difficult to become aware of and to reach.Would it sacrifice its 'purity' if there were some kind of time or spatial diagram that prepared you for floors of utter chaos?