A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe Reviews

MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended

"...It’s true that in real life, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe met. They even shared letters every now and then. This partnership and storytelling seemed inevitable, so why hasn’t anyone done this before? Pensol’s piece comes at the right time in the right place. There is no a better way to spend an evening at the theater in Baltimore."

Theatre Bloom- Highly Recommended

"...“Bills don’t care about the holidays, Virginia.” Not quite the same ring as that line about truly there is a Santa Claus. But then again, this isn’t exactly your grandfolks’ Christmas Carol either. A glorious blending of the macabre meets the holidays, which is sort of what Dickens intended when he wrote A Christmas Carol so many Christmas pasts’ ago, or at least that’s how it turned out— what with the ghosts and all. Though I imagine, if Mr. Dickens were alive today, of all the various and sundry adaptations of his work— a hybrid with Edgar Allan Poe’s internal darkness would certainly not be on his bingo card."

DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended

"...A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe ends with hope and renewal. This play makes one ache for Poe anew, and for such visionary truths for our artistic selves."