An exciting and original brand spankin’ new show called A Bucket of Blood is a stage adaptation by Mitch Brian (Sorority House of the Dead) of a 1959 cult horror film about the beatnik movement, and will include a live jazz score, original art and a lot of laughs!
Adapted from the ultra-low budget 1959 Roger Corman movie of the same name, it is the story of Walter Paisley, a put upon busboy in a Greenwich Village coffee shop who longs to be an artist like the beatniks, poets and painters who populate the cafe where he works.
Through a series of misfortunes, a cat is accidentally killed and Walter, in order to hide the tragedy, covers it in clay and passes it off as an original statue. The half-baked plan works and Walter becomes an overnight sensation in the Village art scene. In order to create more art, Walter resorts to murder propelling his rise and eventual fall.
This production of A Bucket of Blood, is a comedy (albeit a very dark comedy), but not a parody of the original film. It is both a loving homage to the cult film as well as a theatrical reinvention, creating an immersive environment where the audience is transported back to 1959, replete with a live jazz score. It is also a commentary on the nature of art and on the self-importance that frequently comes with its creation.
Director Cody Wyoming has been a fan of the film and low budget/ exploitation films in general for a long time and looks forward to bringing some of the good-natured salaciousness and sleaze inherent in the material to the stage.
Playwright Brian continues to explore the relationship between cinema and live performance as he did with two previous hit productions Maul of the Dead and Sorority House of the Dead.
Showing at The Living Room
Previews 8:00 March 21st and 22nd
Opening Night Friday, March 23rd at 8:00
March 24th 8:00 and 11:00
March 25th 8:00
March 26th 8:00
March 28th 8:00
March 29th 8:00
March 30th 8:00 and 11:00
March 31st 8:00
Closing night Sunday, April 1st
