The British artistic director of an interactive retelling of Macbeth, which has become the second longest-running show in Shanghai’s theatre history, has spoken about the changes he made to the show so it would be understood by a Chinese audience. The British artistic director of an interactive retelling of Macbeth, which has become the second longest-running show in Shanghai’s theatre history, has spoken about the changes he made to the show so it would be understood by a Chinese audience. Sleep No More, a production by the immersive London theatre company Punchdrunk International, has sold more than 177,000 tickets since it launched in China two years ago. Laure Bachelot in Sleep No More (Yuan Studio)“But actually when we went to China we realised it wouldn’t make any sense. “So we started from scratch and understood all about the symbols of superstition and reinvented it all.

Source: Irish Independent December 06, 2018 03:00 UTC