Requiem for a Gumshoe

From the mad geniuses that brought you the Dora Award Winning Space Opera Zero! comes Part II of the Apocalypse Trilogy

Eldritch Theatre presents…REQUIEM FOR A GUMSHOE

by Eric Woolfe with bits stolen from Snorri Sturluson

“Requiem for a Gumshoe is a freakish delight.” – Istvan Reviews

“Profoundly creative…virtuoso performances. I didn’t want the show to end.” -Leslie Barcza

A weird-noir, hardboiled, cosmic-horror mystery told with sultry actors, terrifying puppets and dark, arcane magic. A warlock running from his past. A woman running from the End of the World.

“It’s as if the Norse Legend of Ragnarok was the bastard love child of HP Lovecraft
and Raymond Chandler.”     – Eric Woolfe, Artistic Director

Rick Fischmascher is a rumpled private detective and warlock for hire, haunted by the death of his son, and entrenched in the arcane murder of a troubled opera singer. And he’s the chief suspect. Requiem for a Gumshoe is a weird-noir, hardboiled mystery, re-telling the Norse legend of Ragnarok in the pulpy style of Raymond Chandler infused with the cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft.

“Eric Woolfe is one of the city’s genuine, gloriously obsessive originals. No other local theatre company has as completely-defined an aesthetic as his Eldritch Theatre, which specializes in imaginative, lo-fi, old-school horror and mystery stories, with puppetry and a bit of magic thrown into the mix.” NNNN –Glen Sumi, NOW Magazine

“Requiem for a Gumshoe is guaranteed to be unlike anything else you can see in Toronto.”
–Janine Marley, A View From the Box

REQUIEM FOR A GUMSHOE
November 24th – December 4th 2022

At the ghoulishly refurbished Red Sandcastle Theatre 922 Queen Street East, Toronto

Evenings 7:00PM Doors/7:30 Showtime
Matinee 3:00PM Doors/3:30 Showtime

90 minutes, no intermission

Eldritch Member Tickets $15/$20
$20 Tuesdays/$30 Advance/$40 Door/PWYC Sundays and introducing Socially Distanced Wednesdays

Directed by Dylan Trowbridge

Performed by Mairi Babb, Lisa Norton & Eric Woolfe

Set & Costumes Designed by Melanie McNeill
Design Assistant JB Nelles
Sound Design by Verne Good
Lighting Design by Gareth Crew
Puppets by Eric Woolfe
Stage Managed by Sandi Becker
Produced by Adrianna Prosser
Poster Designed by Michael Ripley