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“An all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy”
★★★★★ The Observer

“Intoxicating – simply nothing else like it”
★★★★★ The Stage

“A spellbinding tale of gods and godlessness”
★★★★★ West End Best Friend

Sleep No More tells Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth through a darkly cinematic lens, offering an audience experience unlike anything else. Audiences move freely through the epic story, creating their own journeys through a film noir world.

Taking Punchdrunk’s work to Asia for the very first time, Punchdrunk International and SMG Live have co-produced a re-imagined version of the original production, now set in Shanghai in the 1930s. This production sees new surprises hidden across five storeys of this newly built building in the Jing’An District.

Sleep No More, Shanghai has re-opened with a reduced audience capacity. A number of modifications have been made to ensure the safety of audiences, performers and production staff.

Find out more on the Sleep No More, Shanghai website.

Sleep No More received the prestigious Best Breakthrough Act at Shanghai’s Annual TV & Culture Awards on 13 June 2017.

The production received a Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement in Connected Immersion Theatre in November 2017.

Punchdrunk’s mind-bending, immersive theatre has proved addictive to Shanghai locals.

– Hannah Lack, AnOther Magazine

Creative Team

Directors
Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle
Designers
Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns
Choreographer
Maxine Doyle
Sound Designer
Stephen Dobbie
Lighting Designer
Felix Barrett
Costume Designer
David Israel Reynoso
Creative Producer
Colin Nightingale
Associate Choreographer / Associate Director
Conor Doyle
Executive Creators
Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle

Gallery

Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Paul Zivkovich. Photograph by Yuan Studio.
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai. Photograph by Stephen Dobbie.
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Emily Terndrup, Zhang Xuehao, Steven Apicello, Daniel Nicholson. Photograph by Jiang Fan
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai. Photograph by Mathieu Rabary.
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Samuel Booth. Photograph by Yuan Studio.
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Xu Xinwen, Garth Johnson. Photograph by Jiang Fan
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Omagbitse Omagbemi, Ian Garside. Photograph by Jiang Fan
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Fania Grigoriou, Olly Hornsby-Sayer, Miranda Mac Letten, Daniel Whiley. Photograph by Yuan Studio.
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Olivia McPherson. Photograph by Mathieu Rabary.
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai. Photograph by Stephen Dobbie
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Lee Wen-Hsin, Chiang Pao-Su. Photograph by Jiang Fan
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Shanghai – Andrea Carrucciu, Emily Terndrup. Photograph by Yuan Studio.