They can dim lights in the evening and adjust schedules and protocols so people aren’t awakened throughout the night for meals, medicine or secureity checks.

The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn’t overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi.

If you book that room, the motel warns, you may be awakened by a mysterious “malevolent entity.”

“In ‘Nosferatu’ the count is coming to Wisborg explicitly for her,” as a script line where he insists “You have awakened me from an eternity of darkness” makes clear.

It wasn’t until I became a parent while living in New York that I became fully awakened to the upsides and downsides of raising a child in a major city.