Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now

“The production design is stark and grim, dominated by Federico Restrepo’s lighting and Jessica Sofia Mitrani’s musty gray costumes. Ms. Nemeth, who also designed the sets, nicely evokes the look of a black-and-white movie nightmare.”

By Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

In a decadent society, everything is entertainment. This is the world of Hypnotik. At the infamous Palace Theatre, a hypnotist promises psychic healing to volunteers. One by one he beckons his subjects to the stage where under his entrancement they reveal their most abject and malignant drives. But when the self-described “spectacle of raw shame” fails to deliver a group catharsis, the game of shame gives way to horror, as the Seer stares into a whirlwind poised to swallow more than just the Palace and its host. Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now is loosely based on the bizarre and intriguing life of the Viennese occultist Eric Jan Hanussen, a celebrity in the Berlin theater scene during the rise of Hitler’s Third Reich.

CREATED AND DIRECTED BY

Ildiko Nemeth

CHOREOGRAPHY BY

Julie Atlas Muz

COSTUME DESIGN BY

Jessica Sofia Mitrani

SET DESIGN BY

Ildiko Nemeth

ORIGINAL MUSIC BY

Jon Gilbert Leavitt

LIGHTING BY

Federico Restrepo

SOUND ENGINEER

Paul Radelat

ADMINISTRATOR

Fabiyan Pembelski

CAST

Peter B. Schmitz*
Kaylin Lee Clinton
Markus Hirnigel*
Sarah Lemp
Brandon Olson*
Chris Tanner
Dana Boll
Adam Boncz
Denice Kondik
Laurence Martin
Fabiyan Pembelski
Paula Wilson
Kat Yew

These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
Photos by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation, Ves Pitts, and Tamas Revesz*

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