The Completely Fictional - Utterly True - Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe May 10, 2011

Resident company member Stephen Thorne's 'The Completely Fictional - Utterly True - Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe,' directed by Artistic Director Curt Columbus, will take audiences deep into the mysteries surrounding the author's untimely death. A deliciously odd foray into historical fact, literary fiction, and the dark places where they intersect, 'Edgar Allan Poe' was years in the making. Resident company member Brian McEleney will take on the role of Edgar Allan Poe, whose tale begins at the moment of his reappearance after a seven day-long sojourn to who-knows-where. Unhinged, intoxicated and dressed in someone else's clothes, Poe only has but a few days left to live. Before we let him go into the great beyond, however, Thorne will bring us into Poe's macabre, fantastical universe and all its attendant ghoulish delights. Where did Poe go, who did he meet, and what did he say during those missing days? The landscape of Poe's final journey - which takes us through the ghosts of his childhood, his career, and his afterlife - is studded with elements as strange and chilling as his stories.