Théâtre des Vampires
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Théâtre des Vampires is the home of a Parisian Vampire Coven from the earlier books in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, specifically Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.
[edit] Details
Interview with the Vampire gives little detail about the history of Théâtre des Vampires, but from what we can tell in the first book, it is a theatre that mocks the existence of mortals. The vampire actors perform plays that utilize their vampiric traits, strength, movement etc. and even drink blood in front of their audiences. Due to the nature of the establishment, the audience leave the production still believing what they have seen to be an act.
In Interview with the Vampire, we meet Armand, the supposed owner and Patriarch of the theater, and we learn a little bit about him, and his past with Lestat de Lioncourt, although very little in comparison to what is revealed in the next book.
In the next book, The Vampire Lestat, we learn a lot more about this theater. Before his death, Lestat was an actor at the Theatre in its previous form. Once he is turned, he purchased the theatre converting it into the Théâtre des Vampires. After running it for a while, hands over the ownership to Nicholas de Lenfent, an old friend who had moved to Paris with Lestat. Eventually, Nicholas is driven mad and the theatre passes back to Lestat.
Upon leaving Paris, Lestat gives the theatre to an old Vampire, whose coven Lestat had all but destroyed, with the instruction to live more like mortals
Armand continues to reside in the Theatre, along with a changing troupe of vampires until it is burnt down by Louis de Pointe du Lac.
[edit] Role in Interview with The Vampire
The first presentation as presented is where an attractive woman is being stripped naked against her will, placed out of logic and murdered via drinking her blood. In the film, she was acted by Laure Marsac. Unlike in the novels where the mortal woman after being drank off her blood was simply placed away, here she seems to be eaten up by the vampires in a bizarre human sacrifice.
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[edit] Influence
Théâtre des Vampires may have been influenced by the memory of the Grand Guignol, although on the Interview with the Vampire DVD, on the making of, Anne says that she had no knowledge of the Grand Guignol.
Théâtre des Vampires are a Vampire Metal band. [1]
