Date: Friday 30th October 2009
Time: Doors 10:30pm - show starts 11:00pm
Location: Cnr King & Bray Sts Newtown
Tickets: $19/$15 Click Here To Buy Tickets 18+ ONLY Bookings: 8507 3034

Theatre of Blood is a new late-night horror program opening at the Newtown Theatre on the 30th October. It's modeled on the cult ultra-violent horror theatre, the Grand Guignol, which ran in Paris through the first half of the twentieth century, influencing everything from the films of Boris Karloff to Hammer Horror to Sweeney Todd.

It’s almost witching hour in South Newtown, and you’re walking down the seedy end of King Street. Every second shopfront is boarded up; windows broken, old posters peeling away from the walls.

In the distance, gothic spires penetrate the silvery night sky; the clanking of a late-night train pounds closer and closer. A gust of wind wisps its way around your neck, sending a chill down your spine.

As you walk through the skeletons of two trees by a run-down apartment block, you notice every window and every door is barred tight – graffiti on the pavement announces this as Ghost Valley.

Suddenly, a dimly-lit side-street comes into view – and there it is. Amongst the lit-up brothels and the closed-up shops, you see the sign. A couple of steps down the alley and you are greeted by a darkened stairwell. Through the doors and up you go, up…
…up into…

…the Theatre of Blood!

Theatre of Blood is a late-night horror theatre in the tradition of the Grand Guignol. Each Friday night at 11pm, we go live in the foyer of the Newtown Theatre in Sydney, with a one-hour program of three short plays. Every three months, there’s a brand new selection of plays to entertain, titillate and frighten you senseless…