Plague masks and ambisexual witches: Sleep No More’s immersive experience leaves behind endless gimmicky imitations
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The Guardian— Punchdrunk’s revolutionary theater piece is no more after over a decade in New York. Now we’re drowning in structured funThe “immersive experience” is one of the defining scams of our young century, in which the content-hungry and reality-starved will pay good money to take selfies in a ball pit, or pretend to be locked in a room by an MFA candidate in a top hat.To be “immersed” means to be inside of something, but buildings already accomplish that, so we now understand “immersive” to mean a...
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AOL.com—The Masked Singer’s Miss Cleocatra Jokes She Was ‘Stoned’ Under Her Mask. Michael Becker/FOX The Masked Singer often feels like a hallucination, but for Miss Cleocatra, it almost was one. “I was still on a little morphine,” Jenifer Lewis quipped to Us Weekly ahead of her unmasking on the Wednesday, April 24, episode. “And if you look closely, you’ll see the cat head goes, like, ‘What? What happened?’ I was stoned under the hat.” Lewis, 67, says all of this with plenty of laughs, but she was recovering from a major health scare when she filmed her appearance on season
Global News—What’s behind Kenya’s intense flooding as death toll climbs. At least 169 people have died due to the heavy rains in Kenya, with at least 91 missing, according to the latest government figures.