Entertainment

Something wickedly good

The thrilling, mind- bending new show “Sleep No More” is loosely based on “Macbeth” — but it’s unlike any “Macbeth” you’ve ever seen.

Or, for that matter, any play you’ve ever seen.

This haunted-house ride marks the New York debut of London’s 11-year-old Punchdrunk company, which specializes in immersive environments.

You don’t just sit back, relax and enjoy the show: You stand up and walk through it.

Incorporating installation art, performance, dance, theater and a choose-your-own-adventure game, “Sleep No More” lets the audience roam freely over the six floors of Chelsea’s McKittrick Hotel.

Each of the roughly 100 rooms has been turned into a painstakingly detailed environment. The overall style can be described as Demented High Creepy — just one reason the show’s for audiences 16 and older.

Headless babies hang from a ceiling; one suite is filled with candy jars — help yourself! — another with freakish medical tools. Most of a floor is taken over by a large cemetery and a bombed-out city.

You can’t find this joint on Expedia, though: Co-directors Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle dreamed up the McKittrick — a reference to Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” the soundtrack for which is also used.

Specific sequences and characters are drawn from “Macbeth.” At one point, a nurse plucked me from a crowd and took me into a small room for a one-on-one exam, whispering: “Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets” — a line from Lady M’s doctor.

But don’t look for a linear storyline: The show is more like a fragmented hallucination.

The best approach is to spend the first hour or so exploring the hotel’s many nooks and crannies. You can even buy a drink at the bar, and listen to its house jazz band.

After that, you may want to follow some of the characters.

They’re easy to spot. Audience members are given identical white masks (think Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”), while the actors are in 1930s-style costumes, often covered in blood.

Oh yes, there’s blood. Lots of it. And nudity, manic choreography, loud drum-and-bass music, piped-in movie dialogue, strobe lights, fog machines — Punchdrunk uses every trick in the book to make you forget who and where you are. Just give in to their imagination.

elisabeth.vincentelli
@nypost.com