SYNOPSIS

 

Historically based, issue-focused, interactive, dynamic

immersive theater; Parlor House: Panic of 1893 highlights the fall of the Gilded Age and the inequity of power between men and women, with deep resonances with the crash of 2008. As the economic depression begins to shutter businesses, High Ranking Seattle Officials find themselves unlikely bedfellows when they turn to a Madam of a high-end brothel owner looking for money. By borrowing money from the Madam, sex workers not only bail out the officials but also save the city of Seattle. 

May 5, 1893, the expansion and rise of the American Industrialist, in the Gilded Age, comes to a screeching halt as the United State’s finds itself plummeting toward its first economic depression. Was it the failed coup in Argentina? Was it JP Morgan pulling funding from the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad? Something far more nefarious? 

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    Watch the events unfold as you step inside Seattle’s most infamous parlor house of Madam Lou Graham. In this interactive, theatrical immersion performance you’ll be encouraged to mingle with the characters, hear their stories, and find out what really happened the night the banks failed.