Cabaret Macabre at Silver Spring Black Box Theater

Cabaret Macabre

Silver Spring Black Box Theater
8641 Colesville Road Silver Spring

An all-new Cabaret Macabre inspired by Edward Gorey, Victorian nightmares, dangerous croquet, melodramatic music, and Gothic romance stitched together with Happenstance Theater’s penchant for witty, visual, theatrical collage. This is the 3rd incarnation of what is fast becoming an annual Hallowe’en tradition.

Thru - Nov 11, 2012

Price: $15

Show Type: Cabaret

Box Office: 240-644-1100

Cabaret Macabre Reviews

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"... For a gory delight that perfectly befits the autumnal season you should let your aesthetic palette sample Happenstance Theatre’s 3rd Annual Cabaret Macabre. For September is the month of dying and October is the death, November must surely be one long funeral procession of the great seasons; the fact that this deliciously dark and devious string of sketches, scenes, and moments of morbid maladies straddles the ending of the death and the beginning of the funeral is just too perfect for words. A surly slip to the dark side for one night of riotous fun with ghoulish gems of comedy and touches of the more dark and sinister."

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- Amanda Gunther

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"... Sarah Olmsted Thomas and Alex Vernon share a segment about a love affair gone violently wrong called “The Broken Locket” that doesn’t quite pay off. But the bereavement songs woven throughout the show are all beautifully sung: Grastorf delivers a great “Gloomy Sunday” while Jaster—rigged, with the help of a black hood and a second actor, to look like he’s three feet tall—looks on. When Sabrina Mandell, who co-founded the company with Jaster, takes a salted-pork chomp out of Lady Macbeth’s “Out, damned spot!” speech for a tittering crowd of party guests, you’ll appreciate how difficult it is for a good, subtle actor to play a ham-fisted bad one. Cabaret Macabre deserves to become a locally sourced Halloween tradition."

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- Chris Klimek

Cabaret Macabre at Silver Spring Black Box Theater

Cabaret Macabre

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

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