![]() ![]() I mentioned that the Paisley Witch stuff wasn’t there, but Danvers only had one major interaction with the Second Mrs. She was too busy being terrifying and scaring everybody. How? For one thing, she didn’t spend long stretches of time in Boston folding goddamn sheets. ![]() As a result, Danvers became one of the “less physically demanding” roles in New York and, boy howdy, Danvers has suffered for it. Davis played the role in both Boston and New York (Tori Sparks originated the role in Boston - Hope took it over once Tori started playing Lady Macbeth and is, if I’m being totally honest, the only performer I like in the role), it’s an issue with the New York show’s insistence on having performers “switch off” roles between more physically demanding ones and less physically demanding ones, to facilitate fitting in more shows per week. This is not a performer issue, since the great Hope T. In Boston, Danvers was the scariest motherfucker on two legs - she’d jump around everywhere, she’d tumble down stairwell bannisters (like, with her head on one end of the bannister and her legs on the other end - it was quite a sight), she would just cold grab audience members and start slow-dancing with them while humming spooky songs at them. One of the great tragedies of Sleep No More’s New York production is what they have done to the Mrs. That’s not to say it wasn’t there in any capacity, but it was really downplayed and I never noticed it. Honestly, if any of the Paisley Witch material existed at all in the Boston production of Sleep No More then I never stumbled across any of it. Danvers in the program and there was no connection to any of the Paisley witch stuff. First things first, the character was actually called Mrs. ![]()
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