Hallows-Faire at Harriet's
Welcome to a world of dark gothic Nevermore. Hallows-Faire at Harriet’s is a one-of-a-kind Halloween experience: a fever dream of impromptu performances, summoned spirits and mystical soundscape with storytelling interwoven throughout the evening.
The clock will chime every hour - and when it does - the veil between worlds will be lifted and the ghosts of the faire will swarm. Each has something left undone. Come lose yourself in the enchantment and choreography. Dine with fate and feel the presence of spirits dancing around you.
ORDER OF PERFORMANCE:
5p - “Opening the Book”
First story of Countess Bathory unravels visually.
6p - “Summoning of Spirits”
Ophelia wakes from under the veil. Spectres dance. Feeling of an enchanted carousel ride.
7p - “Portrait of a Monster”
A portrait come to life. The ghosts dance with a giant living portrait of Mary Shelley who likened herself to Frankensteins monster in her writing of Frankenstein.
8p - “Red Figures”
A beyond the grave feel of wandering ghosts under a spell. Four figures are draped in sheer red fabric throughout this piece.
9p - “The Omen”
A dancer adorned in taxidermic moths on pointe shoes dances through the projections of wings and bugs and webs. Two dancers dressed in black lace perform spider inspired movement and two dancers encased in clay entered prior to the song start and remain frozen until the end of the piece when they crack out of the clay.
10p - “Blood Moon”
Werewolf comes to life under the full moon.
11p - “Haunted Host”
Climax of the narrative/story arch. Characters realize they will soon return to the book. Live candelabras walk on the rooftop.
Midnight - “Good Bye”
The grand finale - return to the book.
CHARACTERS:
The Librarian- A spirited orator and an eclectic collector of stories, myths and legends. His personal library contains rare volumes, mysterious tomes and magical secrets.
The Red Masque of Death - From Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story, a silent, lurking figure cloaked in red stalks the party waiting to collect lost souls to bring with him to the Great Hereafter.
Mothman - A red-eyed beautiful harbinger of doom, this monstrous creature appears to those soon to experience misfortune and disaster.
Beast of Gévaudan - A real-life monster that stalked southern France in the 18th century. This part wolf, part lion, part human horror was responsible for 200 brutal murders.
Ophelia - Featured in Shakespeare's,Hamlet, Ophelia is a young noblewoman of Denmark and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends up in a state of madness that ultimately leads to her drowning herself.
Mary Shelley + Frankenstein's monster - The mournful author of the seminal horror classic, Shelly used macabre symbolism to express her grief by penning a story in which she identified with a subhuman monster desperately seeking affection and love that would never come.
Marie Laveau - The mysterious and legendary Voodoo Queen of 19th century New Orleans, the real life story of Marie Laveau is shrouded in myth and magic. Madame Laveau was a well connected community fixture who was reported to have otherworldly powers, to be able tell fortunes, and even to change people's fates.
Countess Elizabeth Báthory - A 16th century Hungarian countess, she's reportedly the most prolific female serial killer of all time as well as the true inspiration for the legend of Dracula. Bloody Bathory (as she came to be known) was rumored to have killed more than 300 women before drinking and bathing in their blood.
Sarah Good - One of the first three women to be accused of and executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials, she was only ever truly guilty of pointing out hypocrisy and intolerance. Curiously though, her last words before being hanged were a curse on those who mistreated her; a curse that came to pass a year later...
Madeline Usher - The dreadful and sickly sister from Poe's, Fall of the House of Usher, Madeline is thought dead and entombed alive in the family vault only to rise again during a thunderstorm to exact revenge on the brother who condemned her to die.
Josephine - The quintessential ghost who doesn't know she's dead, Jpsephine only discovers her ghastly fate upon mistakenly attending a midnight Spectre's Mass in the graveyard she's trapped in.
Alice’s posies - A tragic figure from Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The House of the Seven Gables, Alice wandered into the snowy woods, lost her way and died. Forever after posies grew up from the ground where she passed.
