House of Ithaqua Delivers a Chilling Portrait

Review by Ross Harstaad

Throughout its seven years of existence, House of Ithaqua (HOI) has specialized in the uncanny, the borders of reality, a sort of shadow-world of noir, horror, and the fabulous. As well as entertain, the troupe aims to ‘unsettle.’ (Ithaqua is a deity based on HP Lovecraft’s Cthlulu mythos.) For its annual fall appearance in residence at Cherry Arts, HOI plunges us into the mind of the famous serial killer, Peter Kurten, who roamed the streets of Düsseldorf in 1920s Weimar Germany. 

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