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In the smoldering promise of the Fall of Troy, a mythical world of Gods and mortals rises from the ashes.

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Punchdrunk London 2022

(new show?)

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Sleep No More’s program-building video I missed earlier - Arkadia & Co. give a glimpse into their inspiration and process for…

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Hey it’s your old pal, Scorched. Been a while, hasn’t it?

Theater has been shut down for 13 months and our friends need our help. Please give generously to The Lost Garden! This week, I am matching donations dollar for dollar up to $2000. Let’s work together to help immersive theater workers and ensure when reopening comes that this part of the creative economy can bounce back. 

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Sweet, devious Caroline. Will we ever meet again?

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Inebriated time? Who can afford to get inebriated at a show?

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“PUNCHDRUNK HAS LEFT LOS ANGELES”

At the Central LA Area Planning Commision meeting Tuesday (10/22/19), Punchdrunk’s representative pulled their licensing application. “After deep contemplation regarding the entitlement process, and taking into consideration the appellant’s comments, and how [Punchdrunk] would allegedly operate in the state, Punchdrunk has left Los Angeles.”

Sounds like a final decision and not a chess move to me. Ignorant NIMBYs win again. Sad day for Los Angeles immersive theater.

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Punchdrunk LA Update: The Central LA Area Planning Commission is hosting a public hearing at LA City Hall today regarding the use of The MacArthur as a performance space with permits for alcoholic consumption. There has been some community opposition, including absurd statements by those who have never seen Sleep No More suggesting that it is “clearly a brothel... that promotes human trafficking.” The hearing’s large supporting document (https://t.co/WxjE7Pd53h) references Colette Gordon’s abstract: “Touching the Spectator: Intimacy, Immersion, and the Theater of the Velvet Rope” which refers to a few Tumblr blogs including To Manderley Again and Blood Will Have Blood They Say. 

Here’s to hoping some Punchdrunk vets are in the audience to offer an accurate picture of the value and nature of the show. I believe some of No Proscenium’s crew will be there. Good luck!

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Some potentially juicy spaces within The MacArthur (Los Angeles) at 607 S. Park View Street where Punchdrunk has filed with the city to occupy. 

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PUNCHDRUNK IN L.A. IN 2020 (finally): “Much of the MacArthur’s lower five floors will be transformed into a multi-floor, immersive theater experience by the London-based theater company Punchdrunk—producers of New York City’s Sleep No More, an adaptation of Macbeth that plays out across multiple floors and 100 rooms of a Manhattan warehouse complex... If all goes as planned, the theater is expected to open in 2020.”

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The indomitable Tori Sparks takes us briefly through the McKittrick compound. Video from 2017 and the Tennis Channel (of course).

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The McKittrick Hotel’s Hitchcock Halloween

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Still here... (Sleep No More through 6/9/19)

Happy New Year!

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The Lost Supper -- Opening 16 May 2018 -- Explore the curious delights of our newly unlocked room, the attic. Four weeks only.

Guests will dine in a surreal and sumptuous setting while indulging in three courses of decadence and whimsy. Chic, surreal, and festive attire is encouraged. The menu will include meat, fish, and vegetarian options. All guests must be at least 21 to enter.

 https://goo.gl/bVxZWV

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Secret Cinema’s Moulin Rouge (2017). Terrific video.

Merry Christmas, one and all!

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On the 100th anniversary of her birth, the inimitably divine Joan Fontaine in two of her finest films, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and Max Ophüls’s Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).

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Something new...  Scott Silven in The Health.

https://mckittrickhotel.com/events/at-the-illusionists-table/