Poe's Midnight Dreary
by Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Mcelvain

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Flexible Cast Size American

Synopsis

Edgar Allan Poe's life works are hauntingly dramatized in this play.

The story is cleverly told through a series of dramatizations of the master's works: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial, and The Poetic Principle.

These stories are threaded together with the events of Poe's life as he deliriously remembers them on an anonymous deathbed in a Baltimore hospital.

McElvain fully recreates each story on stage, often makin

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2017
Pages 76
Language English
ISBN-13 9780874406825
ISBN-10 087440682X

Poe's Midnight Dreary is a American play written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Samuel French (2017).

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