Walter Alice Sickert - Bloodless
Created for: The Slaughterhouse Society presents: Dracula 2019
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Local neo burlesque and multimedia art gang, The Slaughterhouse Society, is back at OBERON to invite you into a dark evening of immersive theatre, unabashed queer romance, original film, and re-imaged occult horror... Their largest, most diabolical, and truly experimental event to date!
Do not hesitate! Get your claws on tickets for this limited TWO NIGHT ONLY re-imagined retelling of of the undead classic, DRACULA! Tickets will be on sale SOON.
You've never seen Dracula like this: a completely immersive, three-act play told through movement, film, live foley sound effects, and custom cocktails inspired by each horrific and hotblooded act to help submerge you into our gothic Victorian fantasy! We are abandoning type casting and heternomative, stereotypical gender roles for truly exciting new adaptations of the classic cast that all audiences can enjoy. Witness the unholy union of desire, madness, obsession, and eternal life as only DRACULA can conjure... With the assistance of our outstanding actors from the Boston burlesque scene, and beyond as well as our fabulous, and unique production team:
True Form/Old Dracula- Sherman and Belle Gunz
Glamour Dracula- Jolie LaVie
Beast Dracula- Complete Destruction
The Brides of Dracula/Vermin Princessa- Frankie Stein, Wisty, and Darkn Stór My
The Demeter- Creature Karin Webb
Dracula's Hellions- Lucky Charming, Isobel Valo, Jāne Doe, Amy Beth, Wes Craving, Fem Bones
Foley Soundmaster Hellion: Dick Flair
Jonathan Harker - Simone de Boudoir
Mina Murray - Dahlia Strack
Lucy Westenra - Kimmy Moore
Lucy's Mother- Vera Schränkung
Van Helsing - Ginny Nightshade
Lady Renfield - Fem Bones
Dr Jack Seward - Maggie Maraschino
Arthur Holmwood - Michael Geary
Quincey Morris - Mary Widow
Production Team:
Director/Executive Producer/Choreographer: Fem Bones
Boston's Trick with the Treats, Fem Bones is the award winning, scream queening, oooky, spooky boi of Boston's striptease scene! Head ghoul and creator of badass horror performance art and bcamp burlesque gang the Slaughterhouse Society, they are best know as the demented mind behind Spookshow a Go-Go in Salem, the drag king spectacular Magic Dyke, Slaughterhouse Movie Club at the Somerville Theatre, Revenge of the Robot Battle Nuns, A Dark Knight in the Asylum, and Spider Cult the Musical!
They've played primary roles in Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys' production of Something Strange, and The Slutcracker, are the winner of Gorelesque Idol, Alternatease WTF Award 2013, and The Slaughterhouse Society has won the coveted Alternatease Top Banana Award in 2014 and 2017. Bones has recently performed internationally with The Scarlet Tongue Project and begun working with Boston's Museum of Science to bring drag king performances to the Planetarium.
Co-Producer/Costume & Makeup Design: Michael Geary
Michael Geary is what happens when a wet dream becomes a nightmare. Michael is new to the burlesque world but no stranger to the stage and enjoys mixing body horror and humor to give you something to scream about! Michael enjoys long strolls through the dump, bloody Mary’s and David Lynch films.
Co-Producer: Samantha Bryan
Samantha Bryan (Belle Gunz) is a performance artist, filmmaker and activist, currently splitting her time between Worcester, MA and Mexico City. She is a proud member of award-winning local troupes, The Slaughterhouse Society and The Lipstick Criminals, and former member of Vadalna Tribal Dance Company until their close in 2014. In 2004, she graduated from Bossov Ballet Theater, a Vaganova-method ballet school and junior company directed by Andrei Bossov, former principal dancer and choreographer for the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2007, Samantha graduated with a degree in Culinary Arts from Johnson & Wales University, and after many years of working as a chef around the country, she decided to return to creating art full-time. Through her travels while performing, producing, and furthering her education, she became very passionate about women's issues, outsider cultures, and understanding art as a form of activism and awareness. She previously co-directed a short film in 2014 on women in metal, entitled “Sirens of Doomsday” as part of the Slaughterhouse Society production, which later inspired her to become the director and producer of The Scarlet Tongue Project. The Scarlet Tongue Project a documentary film, collective, and movement, exploring the social taboo of anger through art, culture, and intersectional feminism. Follow TSTP on Instagram @thescarlettongueproject to stay up to date on future screenings and events!
Costume/Prop/Prosthetic Design: Devilicia/ Vera Schränkung
Devilicia has been doing evil things on the stage for the past 3o years. Founder of the original Monster Burlesque troupe, Black Cat Burlesque, co-Founder of La Gata Negra League of Masked Lady Wrestlers and produced old-fashioned Spook-shows at the Coolidge Corner & Somerville Theaters. She has performed Burlesque and Go-Go in Boston and beyond, including Tease-o-Rama, NYBF and the Burlesque Hall of Fame as well as toured with music legend Jonathan Richman.
In the past several years, she has used her love of monster making she enjoyed helping other people make their creepy dreams come true and founded Black Cat Burlesque FX, providing special FX, prosthetic design, prop fabrication and costuming services for film (
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Video Production: Beren Jones
Beren is a Boston-based filmmaker/videographer who grew up in the cultural mecca that is Lincoln, Nebraska. He joined the Navy at the age of 17 to get the hell out of dodge (I know Dodge is in Kansas, alright, it's a metaphor) and hasn't looked back. After being stationed in Groton, CT (yay, submarines!), he left the navy and got a degree in Journalism and Film Studies from the University of Connecticut. He then moved to Boston and has been busy filming awesome, sexy people doing awesome, sexy things (mostly burlesque and circus). He also has faaaarrrr too many comic books and not nearly enough time to read them all.