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Maelstrom

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  5w, 7m

NOTICE: Please be advised, this title is being made available now in manuscript form prior to its publication.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 7m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
This wild, dark farce may be the hallucination of the dying Edgar Allan Poe, delirious in his last moments in Baltimore, having almost succeeded now in drinking himself to death. A fast paced and surreal melange of incidents from his life and work, real people like his childlike wife Virginia, Longfellow, the actors Junius Brutus Booth and Edwin Forrest, and the murder victim Mary Rogers mix with the Red Death, the Raven, Hop Frog, and an Ourang-Outang to create a unique theatrical adventure that is at once horrifying and funny. Unusual, powerful, unspeakably strange and nonstop, and ultimately moving, a melancholy and eerie love story.
Cast Attributes
  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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