Antagonizing The Press
Because of the advertisements for vampire interviews, La Commedia del Sangue enjoyed press attention before the show opened. Sokol was interviewed for WOR-AM's Hispanic New York over a two-week period coinciding with the show's opening night. Later WOR-AM would give out free tickets to Vampyr Theatre and Sokol would be interviewed by Paraquat Pat on WNEW-FM, by Joe Collum on channel 9 news, would make several radio and television appearances on BBC Radio and Britain's Atlantic Network, and the show "More Than You Can Chew" was recorded in its entirety by Japanese television. During an interview with German TV conducted during a vampire night at a local club, Sokol, the only person being interviewed who didn't claim to be a vampire, bit the journalist. During an interview with Sokol for Britain's the Girly Show, Shaunte Shayde lured the reporters out of the club to a park, made them pay her $40 and a bottle of wine for her interview and then stranded them. When Village Voice reporter Susan Walsh disappeared in 1996, it caused upheaval in the New York City vampire community. When contacted by the press about her disappearance, members of the troupe were openly hostile to the press.
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