| Thrillpeddlers
have been performing a unique brand of horror and fetish
theatre in San Francisco for over a decade. The links
below will guide you to information and photos from
some of our most popular productions. |
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Shocktoberfest!!
2001: Carnival of Hallucinations (2001)
The third edition of our annual "Pageant of
Terror and Titillation." This time around
we offered two new adaptations of classic Grand Guignol
plays never before performed in English (Maker of
Monsters and Kiss of Blood), and an original
play based on Puccini's opera Tosca (The Torture
of Cavaradossi). And back by popular demand,
Thrillpeddlers' lovely, leggy, foot-fixated playmates,
The Barefoot Beauties, were on hand (and knees) performing
two new fantasy vignettes. |
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Shocktoberfest!!
2000 (2000)
Thrillpeddlers return for a second year with three
world premiere adaptations of classic Grand Guignol
plays: Andre de Lorde's bizarre mystery Brush With
Death; the outrageous Grand Guignol sex farce A
Wedding of the Member; and finally, Orgy
in the Lighthouse, one of the most popular pieces
from the Grand Guignol's later repertoire. This year
also marked the debut of Thrillpeddlers' foot fetish
femmes fatales, The Barefoot Beauties (and the untimely
end for some unfortunate earthworms). |
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Shocktoberfest!!
(1999)
Thrillpeddlers begin what is to become a San Francisco
Halloween tradition. Three incredibly strange plays
in one unforgettable evening. From the porno-centric
morality play The Celibate, to the Victorian
girls-school spanking adventure A Visit To Mrs. Birch,
to one of the Grand Guignol's most popular dramas A
Crime In A Madhouse, this show stunned unsuspecting
audiences night after night. Like the Stones'
concert at Altamont or The Talking Heads' first show
at CBGB's, it seems that just about everybody tries
to claim "I was there." |
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Mondo
Andronicus (1997)
For the 1997 San Francisco Fringe Festival, Thrillpeddlers
turned to Shakespeare's revenge powerhouse Titus
Andronicus. Deconstructing the play with a Mondo-film/Faces
of Death aesthetic, we sliced the script down to
a lean 60 minutes and turned up the blood and gore to
11. Adding fuel to the fire was a live-mixed Drum-n-Bass
soundtrack. The entire run was sold-out, and the production
was voted "Best of the Fringe." |
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Clive
Barker's Frankenstein In Love (1996)
The U.S. premiere of horror/fantasy writer Clive
Barker's necro-political thriller. Barker personally
selected Thrillpeddlers as the theatre company best
suited to tackle his dark and complex work. Our production
featured several of our favorite Bay Area actors and
choreography by legendary nude dancer Carol Doda. |
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Laboratory
of Hallucinations (1991)
Thrillpeddlers original adaptation of the quintessential
Grand Guignol drama. Our production was based on the
play by France's "Prince of Terror," Andre
de Lorde, which thrilled audiences in Paris for over
forty years! SOMA magazine wrote, "San Francisco
has recently been treated to a play which dares to give
the audience the horror and melodrama they crave rather
than the stultifying naturalism they are too often told
they want." -- John H. Harvey |
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