While Lennox does not appear as a corporeal character within the McKittrick Hotel, his presence within the town of Gallow Green is remarked upon in several documents found in Malcolm’s detective agency, including the following lines from Act II, Scene iii: So, here I will briefly list some of the off-stage characters of Sleep No More and will explain their significance to the show, such as there is any. The McKittrick would be a dead place indeed if we weren’t presented with hints that the twenty characters we see regularly interacted (at least during their ordinary, mortal lives) with other, perhaps less disturbed, folks about town. Oftentimes this means implying the existence of other, unseen characters who do or once did occupy the space. To contribute to the illusion that these spaces are “real” and “lived-in” requires a number of props that point to the existence of life outside of what we see in the show. The McKittrick Hotel, for all its artificiality in the face of some not-insignificant suspension of disbelief, is meant to represent a massive amount of space–a city, an asylum, a hotel, three residences, a forest and a graveyard. I thought I’d get myself back into the swing of things with a little chat about the unseen guests at our favorite urban auberge. Keep your smelling salts on hand, ladies (and gents). It’s been a damned long while, and it’s high time that Maxim de Winter made his long-awaited return to the Tumblrverse. Hello, my little cherubic jewels of the internet.
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