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Image featuring text & a photograph. Eldritch Theatre presents Doc Wuthergloom Here There Be Monsters. Created & performed by Eric Woolfe. To the right, Doc Wuthergloom, a man with skull makeup on his face, wearing a black top hat and a black and red striped jacket, holds up a small wooden structure bearing a tiny skeleton and a small jar.
Image featuring text & a photograph. Eldritch Theatre presents Doc Wuthergloom Here There Be Monsters. Created & performed by Eric Woolfe. To the right, Doc Wuthergloom, a man with skull makeup on his face, wearing a black top hat and a black and red striped jacket, holds up a small wooden structure bearing a tiny skeleton and a small jar.

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Doc Wuthergloom’s Here There Be Monsters

Just in time for Halloween!

From Wednesday, October 25 to Sunday, November 5, 2023, Eldritch Theatre presents Doc Wuthergloom’s Here There Be Monsters at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Created by Eric Woolfe, and performed by Doctor Pretorious Wuthergloom (a.k.a. Eric Woolfe) as Himself and Emma Mackenzie Hillier as Camille, this is just what the doctor ordered for this spooky season!

Step right up and be terrified and amazed! There’s room for one more …

Armed with a caravan of creepy puppets and dark parlour magic, Doctor Pretorious Wuthergloom – the infamous necromancer, travelling exorcist and arcane medicine showman – presents a ghoulishly giddy series of tales about the monsters, cryptids* and weird creatures that haunt our mortal realm.

GASP! at the terrifying tales of child-eating faeries and the cigar-smoking Kapre of the Philippines! WEEP! at the sad fate that befell Edward Mordrake, the Man with Two Faces, and the Boy Who Was Stolen by the Wild Subway! SHUDDER! at the sight of Ghouls, Old Ones, Cosmic Horrors, the Toronto Tunnel Monster and the Dreaded Suburban Sasquatch!

Each tale is a fearful warning from the Goblin Universe, wrapped in impossible feats of magic that will warp your very sense of reality! But never fear. Doc Wuthergloom can save you, if only you purchase his Field Guide to Monsters!

“Woolfe has this incredibly unique way of weaving in his slight-of-hand magic into his stories in such a natural way as it wows and amazes audiences. The seamless transition from storytelling with the puppets to doing the magic tricks themselves creates a performance unlike anything you’ll see anywhere else in the city.”

– A View From The Box

Eric Woolfe as Doc Wuthergloom, a man with skull makeup on his face, wearing a black top hat and a black and red striped jacket. He leans over from behind a table with various objects, holding a macabre cloth doll in his right hand; his left hand rests on a ukulele set on the table.

(Photo credits: Eldritch Theatre.)

 

Event details

Hosted by: Eldritch Theatre

Type of event: Performance with magic & puppets

Created by: Eric Woolfe

Cast: Eric Woolfe & Emma Mackenzie Hillier

Dates: Wednesday, October 25 – Sunday, November 5, 2023 (no performance on Tuesday, October 31)

Start times: Monday – Saturday nights at 7:30 PM ET (doors open at 7:00 PM – no Tuesday night performance); Sunday matinées at 3:30 PM ET (doors open at 3:00 PM)

Duration: 75 minutes (no intermission)

Cost: C$25.00 Devil’s Night special (Monday, October 30 only) / $30.00 advance / $40.00 at the door / Pay-What-You-Can Sundays / $20.00 for Eldritch Inner Sanctum Members (Not a member? Join them.)

Location: Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON, M4M 2J5. To get there by TTC, take the 504 Queen streetcar east and get off at at Queen St. E @ Logan Avenue (TTC stop ID 3059).

Parking: There is Green P parking on Queen Street East.

Booking link: Book your tickets here

Contact Details: Eldritch Theatre/Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON, M4M 2J5, Canada; website, adrianna@eldritchtheatre.ca

* An animal (such as Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster) that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist. (Merriam-Webster)

Accessibility: The theatre’s Queen St. East entrance has a ramp and a non-automated door. Washrooms are located on the first floor.

COVID-19 policy: The theatre has a HEPA filter. Masks are mandatory in the theatre at all times; no food or drink is allowed inside at this time. Read more.

Content warnings: Death, dying, dark magic and cosmic horrors.

Refund policy: Tickets can be rescheduled within the date range of the show.