I don’t go to sleep no more very often anymore because I think even over the space of twelve years, one hundred times is probably more time than one needs to see the same play, even a large strange play that is also very good. I still have an enormous amount of affection for this big weird building and all the big weird shit inside it, but there’s generally a lot of things competing for my $150 at any given moment. you know how it is.

anyway! all of this to say I went to the show a few weeks ago for the first time since summer 2022, and I had a blast, with the exception of the approximately twenty minutes total I spent in manderley, which was a little bit heartbreaking, if I’m honest.

but that’s okay. all of the new cast (and all of the new-to-me cast) are great, all of the not-new cast are great, I had a great time stalking the cunning man as per usual, everything is great. (please do actually fix manderley though.) ok thanks bye!

now who would ever go and do a thing like that?

it’s probably not a surprise that this summer I went to london to see the same weird play several times (esp since it’s not even the first time I have gone to london to see a weird play several times). I have spent pretty much every PTO day I’ve had with family ever since my mom died in 2019, so this was my first for-real vacation in many years and it was great, all of it, zero regrets.

the show is completely, completely my shit, tbh even more than the drowned man was. (in fact if we are friends I have probably already spoken to you way too much about how much I liked this show.) but of course the real immersive experience was the friends we made along the way.

I’m aiming to make it back in 2023, so feel free to recommend things that aren’t the burnt city that I should visit or eat or do, particularly if those things are open on mondays or tuesdays. (london why are all your good cocktail bars closed on mondays!)

My hobby: reading one-star Yelp reviews of Sleep No More.

I think this was a terrible show, I am not sure if maybe it is involved with satanic worship or just a different style of acting that does not grab or keep my attention but people seemed like they were in a trance and I felt like an outsider. I have no idea why this show is being compared to Shakespeare or anything bc there was no storyline, just people rolling on the floor, drinking, running around with mask in a zombie like manner. 100 dollars a ticket and I laughed for 20 minutes bc me and my boyfriend looked like lost pigeons, I used the ladies room and left with that ugly mask.

I love Jesus and maybe that is why this was not for me. I’ll leave it at that.

Attention Yelp users: it’s ‘Manderley,’ not ‘Mandalay.’ It’s also ‘McKittrick,’ not ‘McKitteridge,’ or ‘that place with the 1920s Hamlet lol.’