Shocktoberfest!! 2009

Thrillpeddlers presents…
Shocktoberfest!! 2009 – The Torture Garden
The 10th Annual Pageant of Terror
Oct. 1 – Nov. 20, 2009
…and PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI – Extended thru Nov. 22, 2009

At Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome Theatre in San Francisco.
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Thrillpeddlers is proud to announce SHOCKTOBERFEST!! 2009 – The Torture Garden
their signature Halloween show - the 10th annual presentation of Grand Guignol terror plays and stimulating sex farces, running Thursdays & Fridays at 8:00 pm from Oct. 1 thru Nov. 20, 2009. Opening Night (press night) – Thurs., Oct. 8. The program will be presented in repertory with Thrillpeddlers’ current production PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI, the Cockettes musical, which will continue to run on Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 7:00 pm through November 22, 2009. Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome Theatre is located at 575 10th St., San Francisco 94110. (Bryant & Division Sts.) Tickets are $25 gen. admission or $69 for “Shock Boxes” and “Turkish Lounges**”
(admits two) and are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79961
or by calling 800/ 838- 3006.

SHOCKTOBERFEST!! 2009 – The Torture Garden
The program will feature two one-act plays, THE TORTURE GARDEN by Pierre Chaine and Andre de Lorde, a 1922 shocker from the repertoire of Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol, the original French horror theatre, and THE PHANTOM LIMB, an original play in the Grand Guignol tradition commissioned by Thrillpeddlers from New York playwright Rob Keefe. The bill culminates with Thrillpeddlers' famed black-out spook show finale when ghostly apparitions materialize before the audience's startled eyes. The Hypnodrome's "Shock Box" seats provide pairs of patrons with privacy and an added jolt of “lights-out thrills”.

PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI
An original musical by Link Martin (book/lyrics) and Richard “Scrumbly” Koldewyn (music), PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI is the centerpiece of Thrillpeddlers’ 2nd annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, and marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Cockettes, a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated this show, but also exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies to glitter rock stars (such as David Bowie and the New York Dolls) and their outrageous fashions. Pearls is a psychedelic musical inspired by sin soaked Old Shanghai and Busby Berkeley movie musicals from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI is a comic mock-operetta about white slavery, opium dens, and miscegenation set in the colorful world of 1937 Shanghai. Link Martin parts the bamboo curtain, his politics swept aside by his love of the mystery and intrigue of the Orient. Placing his story at the crossroads of good and evil, his exotic “old sin town” is filled with singing sailors, humorous whores, foolish immortals, handmaidens and henchmen, all taking their places in streets teeming with a mix of foreign aristocrats, opium addicts, and gangland slave-trade czars.


WHAT: Thrillpeddlers present…SHOCKTOBERFEST!! 2009 – The Torture Garden

Performances Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 pm,

Previews October 1 & 2 (Thurs. & Fri.)

Opening Night (press night) – Thurs., Oct. 8

The show continues through Fri., Nov. 20

TIX: Tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79961

or by calling 800/ 838- 3006

$25 general admission / $69 for “Shock Boxes” and “Turkish Lounges” (admits two)

VENUE: Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome is at 575 10th Street, in SF. (Bryant & Division Sts.)

SPECIAL SHOW: Halloween, Saturday, October 31, 2009

SHOCKTOBERFEST!! 2009 will be presented at midnight.



WHAT: Thrillpeddlers present…PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI

- the Cockettes musical, extended by popular demand.

Saturday at 8:00 pm & Sunday at 7:00 pm through November 22, 2009.

TIX: Tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/67716

or by calling 800/ 838- 3006

$30 general admission / $69 for “Shock Boxes” and “Turkish Lounges” (admits two)

VENUE: Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome is at 575 10th Street, in SF. (Bryant & Division Sts.)

SPECIAL SHOW: Halloween, Saturday, October 31, 2009

PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI will be presented at 8:00 pm.

The Hypnodrome Theatre is wheelchair accessible.