Olde Hallows Eve - The Danse Macabre at MOTAT

Olde Hallows Eve - The Danse Macabre at MOTAT

This Halloween the Dance of Death is making its chilling debut amongst the Victorian buildings and historical grounds of MOTAT on Sunday 25 October.

Visitors can dress up in their scariest costume and frolic with characters from the darkest eras in history at MOTAT’s Olde Hallows Eve - New Zealand’s largest Halloween event of its kind. Legend would have it that The Grim Reaper rouses himself at midnight, summons the skeletons from the grave, and they all boogie down until the rooster crows at dawn.

Although there will be plenty to keep the youngsters entertained it’s not all innocent trick or treating. Halloween warrants something more diabolical, evoking noisome crypts and jangling bones. The Danse Macabre is a spine-tingling reminder that no matter what our station is in life, death unites us all.

Patrons will be terrifyingly entertained by skeletal stilt walkers from the moment they arrive and mesmerised by the projection mapping of Danse Macabre on the historical Pumphouse building. They can join in the ghostly jaunt on the lawns of the Victorian Village before venturing into the sinister cemetery along with its resident spectres – if they dare!

For those brave and old enough, MOTAT invites them to experience the spooky ‘Dead Poets Corner’, the bizarre ‘Bazarre’ festooned with dirty beggars, a vulgar butcher and wretched ladies of the night as well as ‘Jack the Ripper’s House’ and the ghoulish medical school where no-one gets out alive. They could even meet Sweeney Todd, Jack or The Reaper himself.

Add to this the showmanship and First Scene’s costume parades, tasty treats, children's creepy courtyard and an edgy atmosphere of eerie fun and it bound to equal an Olde Hallows Eve no one will ever forget.

Of course, everyone gets a birthday and then dances through life as best they can - but then everyone gets a death day too. Celebrate Halloween at MOTAT’s Danse Macabre this year.

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