The Bicentennial Vampyre Ball - A Halloween Revel
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15 reviews - The Century Club
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Classes
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Tickets from £20.00 - £30.00
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Over 18
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This event has taken place.
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21:00 - 03:00
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication in 1819 of John Polidori’s The Vampyre
Come join us this Halloween to salute the first fictional vampire - Lord Ruthven - a lover of solitude and silence in whom an evil power resided. He of the dead grey eye, a face of deadly hue with a smile of malicious exultation upon his lips. He who stalked the drawing rooms of London, Rome and Athens and hurled his victims from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation. He who mocked death and arose from the grave to continue to glut his thirst on the society ladies of 19th Century London.
Polidori’s blood-sucking creation went on to inspire a two-century pantheon of fictional nosferatus including Count Dracula, Graf Orlok, Countess Bathory, Irina von Karlstein, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, Spike & Drusilla, Edward Cullen, Santanico Pandemonium and Count Duckula.
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Dr John Polidori was Lord Byron’s personal physician and travelling companion. He was present, with Byron and the Shelleys, at the legendary evening at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in June 1816 - the “year without a summer” - where the unseasonal weather lent itself to contemplation of the supernatural. The guests were invited to write ghost stories to pass the time, which led to the genesis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Byron’s unfinished contribution to the evening - a fragment about a man who dies and comes back to life - was later worked up by Polidori into a short story - The Vampyre - which was published in 1819. The central character, Lord Ruthven, was based on Byron himself. The story was to inspire Bram Stoker’s Dracula and spawned an entire horror genre. Polidori, disillusioned and in debt, committed suicide two years later at the age of 25.
Offers
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Tickets/Times
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Early Bird Ticket
The Halloween Ball
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21:00 - 03:00 | £25.00 |
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Advance Ticket
The Halloween Ball
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21:00 - 02:00 | £30.00 |
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Early Bird Group Discount
Friends and family offer - buy 5 or more tickets
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21:00 - 03:00 | £20.00 |
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Advance Group Discount
Friends and family offer - buy 5 or more tickets
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21:00 - 03:00 | £25.00 |
Location
Address
The Century Club, 61 - 63, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6LQ
Nearest Station
Piccadilly Circus (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation
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12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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