What interests me about this is that the performance combines Shakespeare with The title is pulled from a line by the Bard from MacBeth, which apparently is where some of the narrative that makes up this performane piece comes from.
Here are the lines spoken by the eponimous MacBeth in Act II, Scene II of Shakespeare's play from which the title of the current performance originates:
MACBETH
Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--
LADY MACBETH
What do you mean?
MACBETH
Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'
In this passage MacBeth tells his wife that he heard voices crying out about the murder they conspired to commit. Now we have a modern day performance that takes its title from the delusions of a murderous
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