Overview

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.

Keywords

• Betrayal
• Death
• Love
• Marriage
• Memory
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