An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Mason
Murder By Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe, Jeffrey Hatcher
Synopsis
A dark and dreadful night.
A woman in white lost within a wood.
And the only shelter is a house full of murderers.
Mixing funhouse tricks, Grand Guignol and a deadly game of cat and mouse, MURDER BY POE is a theatrical reimagining of some of Edgar Allan Poe s most famous tales of terror "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "William Wilson," "The Purloined Letter," "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."
As each haunted figure tells a story of crime and mayhem, the woman must solve the puzzle of the house and the riddle of the man who ushers her into its mysteries.
Press Reviews
"Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher guides us into the House of Poe, a dark space with as many rooms as there are tales. Doors and cabinets open to reveal corpses, weapons and every detail of the crime scene…These murderers and victims take the stage like figures from our nightmares. They describe and reenact their stories as if the theater were a laboratory and we were students watching humans turn themselves into experiments."
— The New York Times
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 2005
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822220527
ISBN-10 0822220520
LCCN 2006462651
LCC PS3558.A7349 M87 2005
DCC 812/.54
Murder By Poe is a American mystery play written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2005).
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