Lullaby: the show that will put you to sleep – and then serve you breakfast

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Company members at Duckie, a theatre collective based in south London, admit to having slept through plays in the past. "All the time!" says performer H Plewis. "Everyone has," says director Mark Whitelaw, "haven't they?" It prompted a thought. The group – renowned for raucous, boozy cabaret nights at its residency space at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in Vauxhall – had never really had audiences of their own nodding off. What if they tried to encourage it?

The result is Lullaby, a show that runs at the Barbican from next week and then through July. The audience, on arrival, will be put in comfortable single-, double- and triple-beds tiered around the theatre's Pit space. They'll be given pillows and blankets and then the performers will do everything they can to send the 50-odd assembled off for the night. A ticket costs £42, and includes breakfast in the morning.

Full Story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jun/19/lullaby-barbican-theatre-sleepover

I think it's a really cool idea for a show