The Tell-Tale Farce
by Don Zolidis
Synopsis
It's 1848, and Edgar Allan Poe is just coming off the spectacular success of “The Raven.”
Unfortunately, it's only earned him a grand total of nine dollars.
So when a wealthy dowager commissions him to write her a poem for the vast sum of one hundred dollars, he leaps at the chance.
Only problem: the man who shows up to write the poem isn't Poe, he's Poe's mailman, and he's on a quest to woo the dowager's spinster niece.
Playing Poe is harder than it looks, though, especially when your mustache keeps falling off, the teenage granddaughter of the house is lusting after you, and Poe's arch-nemesis, Rufus Griswold, just happens to be dropping by to settle old scores.
A freewheeling, door-slamming farce with a touch of the macabre.
Publication
The Tell-Tale Farce is a comedy play written by Don Zolidis and published by Playscripts.
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