Have any of you seen Sleep No More? And if so, did your experience as an audience member make you think (as it did me) of the social experiments of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo (though without the sadism)? And — bonus question — is anyone actually working on a social-science research project involving Sleep No More?
Sleep No More: Theater as Social Experiment?
TAGS: accidental experiment, theater


I worked on it and yes, it did.
Saw it. Loved it. Did not make me think of Milgram.
I’ve seen it twice, and I have a degree in psychology, and never the twain did meet in my head. I’m also an actor and AD, so maybe I was just prepared for the excitement of the theatrical experience and put all else aside.
I saw it, and I hated it. And yes, it did remind me of a social experiment, both while I was watching it, and after the performance while talking about it. And yes, I have both a degree in psychology and a degree in theatre.