NIGHTMARE, New York's most horrifying haunted house and AOL CityGuide's No. 1 rated haunted attraction in New York City has announced each of the Fairy Tales that will be gruesomely staged on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, (107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey, NYC), September 29 through November 5, 2011. www.hauntedhousenyc.com
In what is perhaps the most stylistic NIGHTMARE to date, this year's theme Fairy Tales, will feature: The Little Match Girl, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Little Miss Muffett, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Billy Goats Gruff, Snow White, Red Shoes, Blue Beard, Pinocchio, Rumpelstilsken and The Boy Who Left Home To Learn About Fear.
Under the direction of Creator and Co-Director
Timothy Haskell, NIGHTMARE: FAIRY TALES stages the original versions of well-known (and some lesser known) fairy tales at their most gruesome and horrific. Over the centuries many of these fables have evolved into sanitized entertainment for children, but they began as racy and violent tales intended to keep children from misbehaving.
Get lost in a dark forest and wander through the woods while becoming the characters and reliving the terrifying experiences extracted from over a dozen twisted stories handed down by
The Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Hans
Christian Anderson, and more. Try and stay on the path as you go from cottage to cottage - each housing a familiar tale told in the way they were intended - to scare the wits out of you! Each cottage gets more and more intense until you reach the climactic conclusion. Then you have to find your way home. Be careful, though, there are hidden cottages to explore.
"The original purpose for virtually all fairy tales was to scare children straight, so they wouldn't do anything dangerous, bad or amoral," says co-director and creator
Timothy Haskell. "We are going to teach those same lessons to our audiences! The narratives of the Fairy Tales chosen lend themselves to Nightmare's unique theatricality, while giving opportunities for fantastical scenarios and set pieces."
Another component to this year's NIGHTMARE will be a sensory assaulting 5-D theatre experience called THE EXPERIMENT created and directed by John Harlacher and
Timothy Haskell. Unlike year's past where the second event was a much smaller prelude to the main event, THE EXPERIMENT is actually Full-on, every bit as satisfying and experiential as the haunted house. Experienced from your chair in a small lab, you are a subject in a case study for research on the threshold of fear. Will YOUR limits be hit?
The NIGHTMARE: FAIRY TALES artistic team is headed up by
Paul Smithyman (Production Designer) and Justin Haskell (Art Director) and David Hinkle (associate Art Director). The rest of the team includes:
Garin Marshall (Lights),
David Roy (sound),
Aaron Haskell (specialty props), ND
Candice Thompson (costumes).
To buy tickets to NIGHTMARE: FAIRY TALES visit www.nightmarenewyork.com or call 212.352.3101. Tickets are $30 in advance/$35 at the door. VIP tickets are $60 and gets you to the front of the line with no wait as well as a goodie bag. A Super VIP ticket is available for $100 and gets you to the front of the line. It also includes a goodie bag, a t-shirt, two drinks and a backstage tour with the director after you walk through.
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Timothy Haskell (Creator and Co-Director) recently directed Off-Broadway's Stitching (The Wild Project and The Elephant in Los Angeles), The Jaded Assassin (Ohio Theatre), Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy starring
Corey Feldman at the
Classic Stage Company, Corporate Rock (Blue Heron Arts Center) and the
Paris Hilton spoof I Love Paris by
Doug Fields also at the Blue Heron Arts Center. At 13 months, I Love Paris was one of the longest-running solo shows in Off-Broadway history. He also co-curated and produced the first ever Fight Festival at The Brick Theatre premiering his new work Last Life that later transferred to the Ohio Theatre. He is perhaps best known for creating and directing the cult hit Road House: The Stage Play, which transferred from Off-Off Broadway to Off-Broadway at the
Barrow Street Theatre. Mr. Haskell is also the creator and director of the annual Nightmare: New York's Most Horrifying Haunted House. The most recent installation was Nightmare: Superstitions.
John Harlacher (Co-Director) is an actor and director. Acting work includes the WWII prostitute drama NEXT!, at the
HERE Arts Center; the indie feature Love Simple; and Off-Broadway's Dog Day Afternoon, adapted by The Barefoot Theatre Company, of which he is a member. He has directed Nightmare Haunted House with Tim Haskell since 2005, and created 2010's Nightmare: Funhouse. Current directing work includes Callous Cad and Penetrating The Space at Dixon Place. Both shows are presented again in rep at the
HERE Arts Center starting in September of 2011 under the name Friends With No Benefits. He is also known for directing the feature film Urchin, which he also wrote. Released theatrically and distributed worldwide, Urchin was banned in Malaysia as a "threat to culture."
