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A banner format poster for a play: Eldritch Theatre presents TWO WEIRD TALES! What chitinous, oozing monstrosities await you here?! Kafka's Metamorphosis, Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. April 20th - 30th at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Above the dates and venue are silhouettes of a man and a man-sized bug walking through the snow toward a hazy greenish horizon. At the top right: A callout bubble with the words: Adapted and Performed by Eric Woolfe
A banner format poster for a play: Eldritch Theatre presents TWO WEIRD TALES! What chitinous, oozing monstrosities await you here?! Kafka's Metamorphosis, Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. April 20th - 30th at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Above the dates and venue are silhouettes of a man and a man-sized bug walking through the snow toward a hazy greenish horizon. At the top right: A callout bubble with the words: Adapted and Performed by Eric Woolfe

Bone-chilling tales

where Kafka meets Lovecraft in a nightmarish double bill of terrifying transformation & cosmic horrors. Come along if you dare!

Home Events Performance Eldritch Theatre presents… TWO WEIRD TALES!

Eldritch Theatre presents… TWO WEIRD TALES!

Kafka’s Metamorphosis & Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness …

what chitinous*, oozing monstrosities await you here?!

“Seriously bone-chilling… engaging theatrical experience: it was oddly thrilling.” – Lights Up Toronto

Double the thrills, double the chills. A double bill full of nightmarish horror – low trash meets high art that fills you up on pulp! TWO WEIRD TALES is a theatrical double bill adapting two of the 20th century’s most acclaimed novellas of the uncanny: Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and HP Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, with dark magic, hideous puppetry and shambling, protoplasmic** terrors.

The two novellas TWO WEIRD TALES is based on

The Metamorphosis is Franz Kafka’s famous tale about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he’s transformed into a gigantic insect.

At the Mountains of Madness is considered by many to be controversial author HP Lovecraft’s greatest work. It chronicles a doomed Antarctic expedition’s discovery of an ancient alien civilization rife with cosmic horrors sure to leave you screaming for more.

“A whimsical, campy celebration of Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft. Intimate, eerie, goofy spectacle. And surprisingly faithful, even with the puppets & magic!” – Istvan Dugalin

“Two Weird Tales is a fun, freaky, fascinating night out at the theatre! With an intimate space and creative storytelling methods, it’s a truly unique experience!” – A View From The Box

 

A image with text on a photograph. To the left: Eldritch Theatre presents TWO WEIRD TALES! What chitinous, oozing monstrosities await you here?! Kafka's Metamorphosis, Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. April 20th - 30th at Red Sandcastle Theatre. To the right: A bald man wearing a suit and glasses, mouth open to speak as he holds up a large puppet of a man with black hair and glasses, wearing a white scarf over a grey shirt. Behind them is a watercolour representation of mountains. Top right: A call out bubble with the words: Adapted and Performed by Eric Woolfe.
Event details

Hosted by: Eldritch Theatre

Type of event: Performance with magic and puppets

Created & performed by: Eric Woolfe

Directed by: Mairi Babb

Date: Thursday, April 20 – Sunday, April 30, 2023

Start time: 7:30 PM EST (doors open at 7:00) / Sunday matinees at 3:30 PM EST (doors open at 3:00)

Duration: 2 hours, with a 15-minute intermission

Cost: C$20 Tuesdays / $30 Advance / $40 Door / Pay-What-You-Can Sundays / $15 – $20 for Eldritch Inner Sanctum Members (Not a member? Join them.)

Location: at the creepily uncanny Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON, M4M 2J5

Booking link: Book your tickets here

Contact Details: Eldritch Theatre/Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON, M4M 2J5, website, Adrianna Prosser, Artistic Producer

Cancellation Policy: Ticket holders may exchange their tickets for another date in the show schedule.

COVID-19 Policy: Masks are mandatory in the theatre at all times; no food or drink is allowed inside at this time. Socially distanced performances on Wednesdays. Please review the theatre’s COVID-19 policy.

 

 

 

* chitinous: (adjective) a horny polysaccharide (C8H13NO5)n that forms part of the hard outer integument especially of insects, and crustaceans (from Merriam-Webster).

** protoplasmic: (adjective) the organized colloidal complex of organic and inorganic substances (such as proteins and water) that constitutes the living nucleus, cytoplasm, plastids, and mitochondria of the cell. Formerly a word coined to refer to the jellylike material of a cell (from Merriam-Webster).