Hypnodrome
575 10th St
415.377.4202
This event has passed.
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Thrillpeddlers
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June 13, 2008 – July 30, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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Various prices
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Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s freak scene that counts playwrights Charles Ludlam and Harvey Fierstein, SF drag-hippie performance troupe the Cockettes, and a young John Waters among its godparents. Grand Guignol revivalists the Thrillpeddlers revisit this obscure but vital slice of queer history in two classic productions; Charles Busch's Theodora, She-Bitch of Byzantium is an imagined trip to fin-de-siècle actress Sarah Bernhardt's whorehouse, dripping in blood and diamonds (with costumes by original Cockette, Fayette Hauser), while Ludlam's Jack and the Beanstalk is a risqué retelling of the famous fairy tale.
