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Illustrated image for The 25th anniversary production of The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom. Medium close-up of a human-like creature with long black nails peers out of the darkness from under a bed, its left hand out in the light of the dimly-lit room. Bottom right: A coming of age, suburban-gothic horror musical about puberty and the supernatural!
Illustrated image for The 25th anniversary production of The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom. Medium close-up of a human-like creature with long black nails peers out of the darkness from under a bed, its left hand out in the light of the dimly-lit room. Bottom right: A coming of age, suburban-gothic horror musical about puberty and the supernatural!

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The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom

A suburban-gothic, horror musical with puppets

From Wednesday, January 29 to Sunday, February 9, 2025 – Eldritch Theatre presents a 25th anniversary production of their first play, The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom, at Red Sandcastle Theatre! Mostly definitely for adult audiences only.

Having survived the ghastly terrors of adolescence in the 1980s while growing up in succubus-haunted suburban New Bosford, poor Billy Wuthergloom – under the glaring red eyes of a Creepy Musician – gathers together a tattered collection of ghoulish puppets and relives his horrific journey into adulthood, including his troubled relationship with his doomed best friend Hirskill Fischmascher, an uncanny child-mystic who could see things that other people couldn’t.

Written and performed by Eric Woolfe, accompanied by musician Kathleen Welch and directed by longtime accomplice Mairi Babb, audiences will rediscover the horrors of puberty. They promise it terrifies them as much as it does you – even they quake with fear.

“There’s always been something of the carnival barker about Woolfe and his work. Drawn in by the promise of witnessing eerie, uncanny sights, we in the audience pay our two bits and willingly enter his world.”

– Glenn Sumi, Toronto Star

Eldritch Theatre hopes you’ll join them to revisit their first-ever produced play, which received Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Performer and Outstanding Score in its first iteration.

Illustrated image for The 25th anniversary production of The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom. Medium close-up of a human-like creature with long black nails peers out of the darkness from under a bed, its left hand out in the light of the dimly-lit room. Bottom right: A coming of age, suburban-gothic horror musical about puberty and the supernatural!

(Photo credits: Eldritch Theatre.)

 

Event details

Hosted by: Eldritch Theatre 

Type of event: musical theatre performance with puppets

Directed by: Mairi Babb (original production directed by Jason Charters)

Written & performed by: Eric Woolfe, with music performed by Kathleen Welch. Read about them here.

Music by: Marc Downing

Puppets by: Eric Woolfe & Dawn Weaver

Dates: Wednesday, January 29 – Sunday, February 9, 2025. Masks will be mandatory for Wednesday performances: January 29 & February 5.

Start times: Tuesday – Saturday nights @ 7:30 PM ET (doors at 7:00 PM); Sunday matinées @ 3:30 PM ET (doors at 3:00 PM)

Duration: 75 minutes (no intermission)

Cost: Join Eldritch Theatre’s Inner Sanctum to get deep discounts on tickets & receive alerts on Members-only perks!

  • Inner Sanctum Members: C$25.00 + HST ($20.00 + HST on Masquerade Wednesdays)
  • General Admission: C$35.00 advance / $40.00 at the door + HST
  • Tight Wad Tuesdays: C$25.00 + HST
  • Masquerade Wednesdays (masks required): C$25.00 + HST
  • Sundays: Pay What Pleases You

Location: Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON, M4M 2J5. To get there by TTC, take the 501 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 c/o Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. East, Toronto, ON, M4M 2J5, Canada; Producer Emma Mackenzie Hillier: 416-899-2468, emma@eldritchtheatre.ca, eldritchtheatre.ca

 

Content warning: For adult audiences only.

Accessibility: Red Sandcastle Theatre has a ramp at its Queen Street entrance, with a manual door. They also have the ability to remove chairs to make way for wheelchairs in the audience. The first-floor unisex washroom is also wheelchair-compatible.

COVID-19 policy: Masks will be mandatory on Masquerade Wednesday performances: January 29 and February 5; otherwise, masks are optional.

Refund policy: Please contact the organizer.