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How ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Used Sacreligious Statues, Projection Animation to Create the Théâtre des Vampires


"Interview with the Vampire" production designer Mara LaPere-Schloop on creating the Théâtre des Vampires.

But for production designer Mara LaPere-Schloop, Season 2 also fulfilled the artistic promise that first attracted her to the project — the Théâtre des Vampires. The series updates the period from Rice’s 1800s to the 1940s, with the coven performing blood-splattering shows to the morbid delight of a desensitized post-World War II audience. The season’s Prague-based set designer Hélène Maroutian visited her native France to purchase pieces that spoke directly to the history of theater, from its origins to post-World War II.

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