It’s Felix’s personal story of inventing an entirely new, experimental form of theater. JUNE COHEN: That’s Felix Barrett, and he’s about to tell us the story of creating Sleep No More, the immersive theater experience that’s run for more than 10 years in New York City. popping up from a hiding place behind the couch. But we knew the way to the very heart of it. It was almost like an impossible cipher, and you’re trying to find the secret room, which is the end goal, where my friend and I would go and have our snacks and feel pleased with ourselves for having arrived there, knowing that no younger sibling could ever find it. You could slide across bits of timber or old bits of furniture, a tabletop, and block pathways. Look at this.” I peeled a cardboard box to the side and revealed a dark foreboding entrance, a labyrinth with tunnels, and dead ends, and blind corners, and a sense of threat. And she said, “But you haven’t done anything at all.” And we said, “But aha, we have. We took everything out of the attic, absolutely everything, installed a base, put secret passages in, and then put back the junk on top, so it looked exactly the same, as messy as it was before.Īnd Mom was horrified when she’d come back and find the attic trashed. She was like, “Oh, boys, I’m so touched.” We didn’t really mean it that way. We told my mom we were going to tidy the attic. I remember once with my good friend, Alex Cardell from six doors down the road, we were probably about 13. So the deeper you delve into it, the more you uncover. The attic was always seeded with this absolute air of mystery. There’s these magic tricks - vanishing mystery boxes where you can drop a coin in, and because of the mirrors, it evaporates. In this attic, there was a collection of artifacts from lost years: furniture, there was probably some taxidermy, my mother’s mug collection. A young Felix Barrett with his father, a magician. And all the remnants of those tricks are in the attic. He was fine, but the tricks all got muddled, and he never did a magic trick again.
FELIX BARRETT: My dad used to be a magician, and he was a magician until there was a crash.
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