A Century of Stage Frights: The Grand Guignol to Modern Day Horror Plays

Workshops/Panels 2020

Availability ended 12/31/2020 MST
"Did you know that works of [live] horror complete with eerie atmosphere and special effects didn't start with Hammer Films or Blood Feast. There was stage horror in the late 19th Century. It where we get the term "Grand Guignol." There are STILL theatre companies doing works of terror on stage today. Sara Fellini and Adam Belvo of the brilliant spit&vigor have made a successful NY career putting macabre works on stage. Always deep and intelligent, I learned from the masters about how to evoke tension before a live audience." -- Jay Michaels

About spit&vigor

Founded in 2015, spit&vigor is a non-profit theater company devoted to the development of new plays and spirited, innovative productions of existing work. Dedicated to makeshift, skin-of-your-teeth, ad hoc theater, spit&vigor brings modern voices and perspectives to the wild, chaotic, irreverent, burlesque roots of theater. spit&vigor's small roster of productions has been award-winning and critically acclaimed, praised as “darkly humorous, deliciously ghoulish”, “wrenching and visually eloquent”, "irresistibly dramatic" and "legitimately upsetting" by the New York Times.

Their productions delight in the macabre - phantasmagorical religious imagery, ghost hauntings, the mother of horror Mary Shelley, the brutal assassination of Abraham Lincoln, witches, sword fights, amputated limbs, cannibalism, blood & gore. Theater of guts & guile // blood, sweat, tears // spit&vigor. 

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