Carnival of Psychos is a one-act opera with silhouettes and circus. Synopsis? Patient 51 escapes an insane asylum, falls headfirst into a traveling carnival and flees across the desert from the authorities—a wake of vultures. Carnival of Psychos isn’t a place, but a theatrical escape hatch into terror and lunacy. The carnival is coming to San Francisco’s The Great Star Theater, April 18. Keep your ear to the door. Sign up for Samson Y Hiss emails.

 

Scenes of Insanity

 
 

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“Sounds as sinister as a house of horrors kept by some weirdo.” —Midwest Records