From Carnal San Francisco :: I recently got to see a preview of the revival of the Cockette’s show “Pearls Over Shanghai.” It’s an original musical written by Cockette Scrumbly Koldewyn, a musical genius born in the wrong era. His tastes and style come directly from show tunes of the early to mid 20th century [...]
Thrillpeddlers, well-known for blowing dust and gristle off Grand Guignol plays from early-20th-century Paris, are setting their sights a bit closer to home for this year’s Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival. Forty years ago, the Cockettes — a lurid, shimmering, acid-soaked theater troupe composed of gay men, fag hags, and babies — rose like a phoenix draped in thrift-store finery from a dilapidated movie theater in North Beach. Praise for the resulting exuberant midnight musicals spread like easy thighs across America, enticing Truman Capote and influencing everyone from David Bowie to the New York Dolls.
“It’s like your brain just had a lot of unprotected sex and maybe some roofies and you woke up with your frontal lobe feeling really stretched out in a way that you’re too embarrassed to even tell your doctor about. It’s that much fun.”
Thrillpeddlers is one of a handful of nominees for the SFGate’s BayList Award for “Best Theatre Company.” Please visit the BayList website and click the yellow “vote” badge to cast your vote for us. Thanks for all the support!
Young devotees of Horror, Sci-Fi and Suspense have a summer camp to call their own! Creepshow Camps face “fright” with curiosity and creativity, revealing the secret techniques behind scary entertainments’ vitality and power. Workshops led by our dedicated staff of teaching artists engage participants, hands-on, in activities that teach and reinforce the fundamental skills in monster make-up, special effects, sleight of hand and stage combat. In our theatre venue, campers rehearse on-stage for a farewell performance given for family and friends at the end of every Creepshow Camp session. Four two-week sessions: June 15 – 26, July 6 – 17, July 20 – 31, August 3 – 14.
Extended through May 16th
Thrillpeddlers are proud to announce the first production of their 2009 season, “Audacious Artefacts: Parisian Grand Guignol,” which will include four terror plays and sex farces from the repertory of the famed Parisian Théâtre du Grand Guignol. The show will be presented on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. through May 16, at Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street, San Francisco.
Three nights only! February 12, 13 & 14 @ 8:00 At the Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street, San Francisco $25 – $35 general admission $69 for “Shock Box” seats (admits two) Tickets are available at BrownPaperTickets.com. Where can San Franciscans revel in an oddball weekend that alternatively celebrates the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Friday the [...]
Thrillpeddlers will be performing with the fabulous Cockettes as part of New York’s Howl Festival, September 6 – 10, 2008. It’s our first appearance on the East Coast, and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ll be performing pieces from our recent “Theatre of the Ridiculous Festival” as well as The Cockettes legendary “Pearls Over Shanghai.” [...]
Interesting Grand Guignol items are few and far between on Ebay these days, so it’s pretty exciting (to me, anyway) when several show up in one week: Original Theatre du Grand Guignol Program from 1952-53 From the listing: ANOTHER FABULOUS FIFTIES FRENCH THEATRE PROGRAM- “DU PLOMB CES DEMOISELLES”. OF COURSE WE HAVE THE GREAT VINTAGE [...]
Continuing our series of White Hot ‘N’ Warped cinema, Dead Channels brings us the mind-bogglingly awful B-grade (D-grade?) sexploitation shocker She Freak. This 1967 “update” of Tod Browning’s 1932 classic Freaks was directed by Byron Mabe and written by David F. Friedman (best known as the producer Herschell Gordon Lewis’ seminal gore films 2000 Maniacs [...]
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