Twisted Yuletide Boise: A Holiday Evening of Dark Tales & Cocktails

Step beyond the merry and bright into dark holiday folklore, immersive theater, themed cocktails and wicked confections. Twisted YuletideTwisted Yuletide is a dark, seductive journey into the Christmas stories we stopped telling. Long before the holidays became twinkling lights and cheerful carols, winter belonged to witches, monsters and things that came looking for those who had misbehaved. Step into the shadows as four sinister legends from old-world Yuletide folklore come to life, accompanied by three crafted cocktails and one decadent confection over 90 unforgettable minutes. These are not the Christmas stories you grew up with. What Awaits You ❄️ Christmas Has a Darker Side: Travel from the snow-covered forests of Germany to the mountains of Iceland and the villages of Austria and France, where generations once whispered terrifying stories about what might come calling during the darkest nights of winter. 🍸 Drink in the Darkness: Three wickedly crafted cocktails are woven into the experience, each inspired by the legend emerging from the shadows. Mocktails are available upon request. 🔥 Old-World Legends — Brought to Life: Forget sugarplums and cheerful elves. Tonight belongs to hungry witches, rattling chains, watchful spirits and creatures that have been frightening people at Christmastime for centuries. 🖤 An Evening of Dark Indulgence: Candlelight, winter darkness, music, cocktails and theatrical storytelling collide in a beautifully sinister holiday atmosphere created for those who like their Christmas traditions with a little bite. ❄️ The Legends: 4 Tales • 3 Cocktails • 1 Unholy Treat FRAU HOLLE Deep in German folklore lives a woman who watches from beyond the snow. She rewards the worthy—but for the lazy, dishonest and cruel, her gifts become something far darker. And when Frau Holle shakes out her bedding, winter falls from the sky. 🍸 Paired with Black as Pitch GRÝLA High in the frozen mountains of Iceland, something is hungry. An ancient giantess descends from her lair at Christmastime searching for badly behaved children to drag home, drop into her enormous cauldron…and devour. 🍸 Paired with Into the Cauldron KRAMPUS Saint Nicholas was never supposed to travel alone. While the good children waited for gifts, something horned followed behind him—covered in fur, dragging chains through the streets and carrying a bundle meant for children who had been very, very bad. 🍸 Paired with Rattle the Chains HANS TRAPP Once a wealthy and powerful man, Hans Trapp was cast out and driven into the wilderness, where hunger—and something much worse—consumed him. Disguised in straw, he began stalking the countryside at Christmastime, searching for a child he could catch alone. 🍰 Served with A Most Unholy Treat — one decadent raspberry and almond confection. General Info ⏳ 90-minute experience 🔞 21+ with valid ID ♿ ADA accessible 🍹 Mocktails available upon request 🎟️ Three crafted cocktails and one decadent confection are part of your Twisted Yuletide experience Come for Christmas. Stay for the monsters. Leave wondering what followed you home. Brought to you by Wicked Tales Society, a production of The Escapuary, Twisted Yuletide pulls back the glittering curtain on the holiday season to reveal the stories that once waited in the darkness beyond the firelight. These were the tales told when winter nights were long, the forests were dangerous and people still believed that something might be listening outside the door. This Christmas, we’re bringing those stories back. Four legends. Three cocktails. One unholy treat. And a Yuletide you won’t soon forget.