Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe
2438 18th Street NW Washington
History's greatest horror writer stands alone in the growing darkness of his own mind, trying to convince himself -- and the audience -- that's he still sane as his best stories come to life in Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe. Before Poe died of "brain congestion" shortly after being found on the streets of Baltimore, dressed in a stranger's suit and muttering mysterious phrases, he wrote the spookiest stories ever put to paper. Now four of his favorites -- "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"-- are brought to the stage in this production from the Molotov Theatre Group. Adapted by Eric Coble (The Velocity of Autumn), Nightfall With Edgar Allan Poe captures both the poetry and the terror of Poe's originals, where the border between sanity and madness is often very thin. Come, if you dare!
Presented by Molotov Theatre Group
Thru - Dec 7, 2014