Scary Business Flourishes in Wroclaw

They take their audience blindfolded from a cosy Wroclaw cafe to a dark basement or attic, where they scare them effectively for 40 minutes. And the audience love it! Wroclaw's off theatrical group Ad Spectatores know that scaring in theater pays. And plan to launch new shows soon.
Atypical shows by Ad Spectatores have been known in Wroclaw since 1997, such as those played in cars driving around the city or in two-level stages, with actors running up and down between them.
The group are also nostalgic in their performance preferences, preferring oldschool climate of Agatha Christe or Edgar Allan Poe and following the Parisian Grand Guignol tradition of bloody shows, full of torture and horror, staged in an old chapel.
In their repertoire Ad Spectatores already have two blood-curdling shows, "9 - Reconstruction" and "Silence Session" that gained immense popularity amongst residents of Wroclaw and beyond.
Their new show, "Psycho", launched December 21st, refers to Hitchcok's memorable movie, which is a starting point of a story taking place n a hotel, that no one is to leave alive.
As Maciej Masztalski, the head of the group said, Ad Spectatores were thinking of developing an independent program line or opening a special theater, just for horror shows. He said spectators had been admitting to be more scared in a theater than at a 3D or 4D horror film. Masztalski explained that it is theater that only can create the creepy mood better than animated monsters and their blood-soaked victims.
Masztalski also points out that sometimes the scary shows attract spectators effectively enough, that they get bitten by a theater bug and whets their appetite for art in general. - Once theater grabs you by the throat, there's no letting go - he says.
Ticket for "Psycho" can be purchased here