Please Fall Asleep During This Performance

A New York show, Dream of the Red Chamber, is exploring what happens when you don't need the audience's attention.

Starting May 9, for a few nights only, New Yorkers can go see a performance piece that encourages its audience to fall asleep. Director Jim Findlay's dreamy play, Dream of the Red Chamber, is an abstract interpretation of a 2,400-page, 18th century Chinese novel that Findlay read 20 years ago. The idea to create a play for a sleeping audience based on the book, he says, hit him in three seconds.

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