Great God Pan Reviews:

"If this is the WildClaw standard for horror, we’ll gladly be horrified again. There’s strong, nuanced character work from the principals (including Lily Mojekwu, Tom Hickey and an astonishing mute performance by Michaela Petro), and the multiply-cast ensemble impresses."
-Kris Vire, TimeOut Chicago

"Fantastically executed... It would be impossible to tell the story literally from Machen's text, but Charley Sherman (adaptor/director) does an excellent job of creating a narrative flow that makes sense. Lighting and sound skillfully move you around the stage, help set the tone and punctuate the moments of tension. The acting is also of high caliber and the female leads Lily Mojekwu (as the many faces of evil) and Michaela Petro (as Mary) are particularly captivating."
-Jude Mire, Killer-works.com

"Our take: next time you’re in the mood for a spine-tingler, put down the Netflix and give this play a shot. It delivers the guts and gore you crave, and you may actually get blood splattered on you. Score."
-Ali Trachta, The Chicagoist

"Playwright Charley Sherman is still remembered in Chicago for his award-winning page-to-stage adaptations of contemporary creep-lit authors, and his rendition of this period thriller is laudable for its roster of elements associated with the genre: esoteric cult-worship, gloomy abandoned houses, gruesome unnatural deaths, masquerade balls attended by licentious guests, strolls through the fleshpots of fin-de-siècle London, innocent virgins strapped to surgical tables, callow youths driven to ruin by femmes extremely-fatales (reflecting the gilded age's fear and fascination with the notion of uninhibited sexuality—especially in women) and, of course, gallons of lovingly-replicated gore.

Assisted by Elise Kauzlaric's superlative dialect instruction, Tom Hickey makes a suitably buttoned-up skeptic to Lily Mojekwu's sensual mystic. Steve Herson projects conviction in the role of the technologist unable to cope with moral ambiguity, as does J. David Moeller's elderly witness whose testimony frames our story, along with an ensemble of actors and designers—in particular, Adam Kozlowski's sound, Allison Greaves' costumes and Ryan Oliver's “biological effects.” Together, they transform what could have been merely a quaint study of prudish Victorian intolerance into a timely lesson for audiences today."
-Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Times

"The show generates spooky fun in the vein of the classic Hammer Films thrillers of the 1950s and '60s, achieving some powerful moments thanks to intense performances, inventive and sometimes grisly visual effects, and Adam Kozlowski's marvelous sound design."
-Albert Williams, Chicago Reader (Caution: Spoiler Alert for Full Review)

"This fledgling company has made a bloody name for itself on the Off-Loop theater scene with this singular production.

Michaela Petro, appearing mostly as a mute character, is a wonderfully expressive and entrancing Mary, through whose eyes the initial horror of this story is seen. Lily Mojekwu's bewitching Helen easily and skillfully transforms each situation with style, elegance and animal ferocity, the better to ensnare her next victim. However, it is the fate of one of those victims, played to innocent perfection by Peter Corey, that will stay with you long after the lights dim.

This modest production boasts many excellent special effects by biological properties artist Ryan Oliver; the stage becomes littered with spurting blood and assorted lifelike body parts throughout the production. The mood of the play is audibly enhanced by Adam Kozlowski's brilliant, pulsating sound design."
-Colin Douglas, Centerstage

The WBEZ Charley Sherman Interview

Listen to an interview with director/adaptor, Charley Sherman, on WBEZ's radio program, Eight Forty-Eight.

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=18899

How we made the poster for The Great God Pan.

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The WildClaw L.A. Banks Interview

In our exclusive interview with Essence Magazine's Storyteller of the Year 2008, Leslie Banks, we talk about her epic Vampire Huntress series now on the tenth book of twelve. We discuss how she writes these stories and what influences her storytelling.

Leslie on detailed research:

"When you have people materializing and dematerializing and walking through walls you have to have some kind of basis for explaining it other than, 'Oh well, it was a ghost.'"

The WildClaw Clive Barker Interview

Our exclusive interview with Clive Barker where we talk to him about working with Charley Sherman (adaptor/director of The Great God Pan) on the stage adaptation of Barker's In The Flesh, the influence and importance of Arthur Machen, and what Clive's currently working on.

Clive on Arthur Machen:

"Arthur Machen is wholly neglected in this country and I’m afraid in England, too. He is, to my mind, easily as important as Lovecraft. He’s certainly a better writer..."

WEIRD TALES OF SIN AND ECSTASY:
ARTHUR MACHEN IN JAZZ AGE CHICAGO
By Gwilym Games, Editor of Machenalia

"Wildclaw Theatre by putting on Machen’s The Great God Pan is making an appropriate tribute to the birth of Chicago’s Weird Tales in this anniversary year. Without Weird Tales and Machen’s influence on those who wrote for it, modern horror and fantasy would be very different place."

"If this is the WildClaw standard for horror,
we’ll gladly be horrified again"
-TimeOut Chicago

"fantastically executed"
-Killer_works.com

"It delivers the guts and gore you crave
and you may actually get blood splattered on you"
-The Chicagoist

"spooky fun in the vein of the classic Hammer Films thrillers of the 1950s and '60s"
-Chicago Reader

"brilliant, pulsating sound design"
-Centerstage

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