Museum of Performance & Design and Thrillpeddlers Present
A Halloween Celebration at
If you haven't RSVP'd yet for our Halloween celebration,
On the menu for tomorrow night:
General Admission, 24 hours in advance: $10.00 ($8.00 MPD member)
RSVP now to 415 255-4800 or email tonyb@mpdsf.org
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Halloween night!!??
INFERNO PARADISO
A Devilishly Angelic Soirée@ The Otherworldly Regency Center
1270 Sutter Street @ Van Ness/ SF[Map]
9pm-4am
$30 pre-sale, $40 door
Purchase Tickets Online @ Groovetickets or InTicketing
Tickets also available @ Streetlight Records (3979 24th St. @ Noe) &
Tweekin Records (593 Haight St. @Steiner)
Full Event Info @ http://anonsalon.com/halloween08 & www.paradox-media.com/inferno
Dress to die for, discover paradise, and climb the stairway to sin! Join the Costume Extravaganza, experience the surreal between this world and the afterlife, PARADISO & INFERNO!
•••••••••~ Devils in Heaven ~••••••••• SCARLET SUCCUBUS LOUNGE
Dark Seductions in the Gorgeous Red Room• HUBBA HUBBA REVUE: "The Burlesquorcist" ∞ • ROSIN COVEN: The Horror of The Halloweenie ∞• DAVID STARFIRE: Six Degrees Records ∞• MARK GROWDEN TRIO: Soulful Sounds from the Underground ∞• FOU FOU HA!: Burlesque Ridiculous & Totally Unsuppressed. ∞
•••••••••~ Angels in Hell ~•••••••••PARADISO PARANORMAL PARTYDOME
Wicked crews & evil beats in the Subterranean Sutter Room
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Info on the current run of the Thrillpeddlers...you can see me die three times a week till Nov. 22nd.AND if you want a chance at some realllllly cheap tickets, join Goldstar -- it's free and you can get tix at nearly half the price.
Shocktoberfest!! 2008: Elemental Horror
Ice, Fire and Electro-magnetism
(plus plenty of blood!)
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM
October 16 - November 22
Thrillpeddlers' Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street, San Francisco
Thrillpeddlers, the world's leading purveyor of Grand Guignol terror theatre return to San Francisco for the company's ninth annual Shocktoberfest!! a roller coaster of one-act plays that pitilessly pit our players against the extreme elements of ice, fire and electro-magnetism – and each other.
The theatrical genre of Grand Guignol, famous for it's shockingly naturalistic approach to gore and taboo subject matter, originated at Le Theatre du Grand Guignol at the turn of the Twentieth Century and quickly gained international notoriety for it's flare for offering sensational theatrical fare, alternating steamy sex farces with bone-chilling terror plays – the unmatchable thrill of the "hot and cold shower" theatrical experience. This too is Thrillpeddlers' passion!
It's "Men against the wilderness!" (and it looks like the wilderness is winning) in the premiere production of "A Difficult Passage" by Rob Keefe. A privileged pair of Yale grads, Bush and Prescott, strike out to face the icy perils of the Klondike en route to their fathers' silver mines with an unwilling "whore" in tow. They've fallen in a hole, devoured their sled dogs, and with few resources are now forced to brave sub-zero elements and the questionable machinations of the Canadian Mountie they hope will rescue them. Thrillpeddlers director Russell Blackwood also helms the long awaited revival of Keefe's "A Slight Tingling," an outrageous electro-magnetic comedy (suggested by the 1907 Grand Guignol play Les Operations du professor Verdier) that skewers the hubris of surgeons and scientists alike.
Beijing is burning and "yellow-faced" rebels are poised to storm the French Embassy in Jonathan Horton's "The Kindest Thing," a new adaptation of the 1904 Grand Guignol classic La Derniere Torture. In a premise plucked from the headlines, the final moments of China's anti-imperialist upraising known as the Boxer Rebellion are played out on the Hypnodrome stage in graphic detail and heartrending pathos. Thrillpeddlers' signature "lights out" spookshow finale, also created by Horton, will bring goose bumps to a head in Shocktoberfest!! 2008's hair-raising climax.
Pairs of patrons will surely enjoy Hypnodrome's Shock Box seats for two, which garnered SF Weekly's "Best of San Francisco 2008" for "Best Bonus Theater Experience." These themed seats include sumptuous Turkish Lounges, as well as private boxes including "Heaven and Hell, "The Pharaoh's Tomb," and "Padded Cell," which offer the same opportunity for illicit trysting that was once a feature of the Parisian Théâtre du Grand Guignol—with added special effects as a nod to the 1950's horror movie gimmicks of William Castle.
We happily extended the offer of discounted general admission tickets for just $15 every Thursday night. Come Fridays and Saturdays, the "Blue Hour" is back and audience members are invited stay for this after-glow floor show of fetish and variety acts well into the dark of night!
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