Stage Door News
Stage Door News
Thrill as a 1930s Earth Lesbian is rocket-planed to a distant planet! Swoon as a tragic love triangle endangers the universe. Gasp in terror as a wicked dog mutant and tentacled slug creature plot to destroy the pulchritudinous Space Princess.
For nearly 20 years Eldritch Theatre has been prowling the theatrical underground, earning audience acclaim and over 25 Dora Awards nominations and wins for their outstanding horror productions. Eldritch shows are "Toronto’s Spookiest Stage Shows” (Torontoist) and in “Toronto’s Top 5 Shows To See” (Culture Trip). This fall make Eldritch Theatre a tradition as it’s a “great way to continue the Halloween spirit,” (NOW Magazine).
Space Opera Zero is the newest creation by Eric Woolfe (House at Poe Corner, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy) which rocket boosts the audience into a retro science fiction sex tragedy of weird fantasy and horror! Told with libidinous actors, hideous puppets and mind boggling interstellar magic. An homage to the Pulp Magazines of the 1930s with Lisa Norton (Murdoch Mysteries) as Emily Trueheart the Pilot, Mairi Babb (War Horse) as Princess Jenora the Princess, and featuring Eric Woolfe as Doggo the Mutant, Hjalmar Pomeranki the Mad Scientist, Ro-Berta the Sex Robot and many, many more!
Directed by Dylan Trowbridge (The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy for Eldritch Theatre, and The Big Game for Red One Theatre Collective), with Space and its inhabitants designed by Dora awarding-winning Melanie McNeill, cosmic lights by Michael Brunet, and sounds that invoke the terrors of the endless void by Christopher Stanton.
Based on the blood-soaked Jacobean tragedy The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton, Space Opera Zero is filled with sinister romance and treacherous aliens. Earth Girl loves Space Girl, who is engaged to an warlike slug monster, and also happens to have a mutant dog-faced stalker willing to do whatever she wants just to have a one night with her. Love is love is love, and deceit begets deceit and worse yet, murder most foul, and even worse still, the potential destruction of all of creation, devoured by an impossibly large Elder God.
Premiering at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen Street East Toronto, on November 16, 2018 to December 2, 2018 with shows at 8 p.m. $25 in advance or $35 at the door, and weekend matinees at 3 p.m. PWYC
Space Opera Zero
Created & Performed by
Eric Woolfe
Directed by
Dylan Trowbridge
Designed by
Melanie McNeill
Spooky Lights by
Michael Brunet
Spooky Sounds by
Christopher Stanton
Stage Managed by
Sandi Becker
Produced by
Adrianna Prosser
eldritchtheatre.ca
@eldritchtheatre
2018-10-02
Toronto: Eldritch Theatre presents "Space Opera Zero" November 16 to December 2