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The Eldritch Plays
The Eldritch Plays
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Author: Eric Woolfe Publisher: Scirocco Drama Format: Softcover # of Pages: 176 Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN-10: 092048655X ISBN-13: 9780920486559
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About the Play:
Gothic, witty and theatrical, the plays in this collection will
introduce you to an irresistible and highly original dramatic voice.
Visit Eric Woolfe's world – if you dare! The three
works included in The Eldritch Plays are populated by some of
the wildest creatures ever seen on a Canadian stage. Eric Woolfe's
unique style uses live actors combined with puppets, simple stylized
special effects, humour, and horror.
Sideshow of the Damned brings us a panoply of Eric Woolfe
characters: mad scientists, werewolves, would-be necromancers and
ghouls – juxtaposed against the quotidian, to great comic
effect.
In The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom, a
small boy leads a fairly ordinary life until puberty, a succubus, and
a strange friend named Herskill Fischmascher take him places he never
wanted to go.
And in the critically-acclaimed Grendelmaus, two co-workers
have to deal with an evil mouse made immortal by eating the dead
flesh of Grendel – as well as a finicky work supervisor, an
eccentric mother, an ancient book of spells, and, naturally, love
(Cast: 1 woman, 1 man).
What people say:
"Eric Woolfe
gets full marks for imagination." — NOW
Toronto
About the Playwright:
Eric Woolfe is a Canadian actor, playwright, puppeteer and
magician, and the Artistic Director of Eldritch Theatre, a Toronto
Company specializing in horror plays using puppetry, live actors, and
parlour magic. His works often explore a myriad of themes and often
incorporate elements of the uncanny or supernatural. These plays seek
to develop innovations in staging, including the extensive
incorporation of various forms of puppetry, mask and a post-Brechtian
approach to staging the fantastic. He is a three time nominee for
the prestigious KM Hunter Memorial Award. The World Encyclopedia of
Puppetry lists him as one of Canada's exciting new wave of notable
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