| Solo Classics Performance Series Starting in October 2007! ___________________________________ |
POE, TIMES TWO Twin tales of mystery, murder...and mortar! In October & November 2007, North Shore Theatre Group will present Greg Oliver Bodine in Poe, Times Two -- a double bill of one-man, stage adaptations of The Cask of Amontillado and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe, Times Two is being developed as part of NSTG's new Solo Classics Performance Series. These two plays are staged back-to-back with minimal set and lighting effects, and are performed successively without an intermission in under an hour. One actor. Two classic horror stories! Touring theaters, libraries, colleges & schools this Fall. Suitable for adults and for children (ages 10 and over). Perfect for Halloween! For booking inquiries, please contact us at: (516) 922-3897 or at [email protected] Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) . The Cask of Amontillado "The Cask of Amontillado"� was first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, a monthly magazine from Philadelphia that published poems and stories by some of the best American writers of the nineteenth century, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story next appeared in the collection Poe's Works, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, Poe's literary executor, in 1850. By the time Poe wrote this story, he was already nationally known as the author of the poem ��The Raven�� (1844) and of several short stories collected in a book called, simply, Tales (1845). WARNING: read on for plot spoiler. The story is narrated by Montresor, who carries a grudge against Fortunato for an offense that is never explained. Montresor leads a drunken Fortunato through a series of chambers beneath his palazzo with the promise of a taste of Amontillado, a wine that Montresor has just purchased. When the two men reach the last underground chamber, Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall, builds a new wall to seal him in, and leaves him to die. The Black Cat First published on the front page of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post in August, 1843, "The Black Cat" is one of Poe's famous murder tales. WARNING: read on for plot spoiler. The story is told by the murderer himself, the first-person narrator speaking to us on the eve of his execution for the crime of killing his wife. About Solo Classics Performance Series... The series combines elements of classic literature, drama and storytelling in a solo, narrative performance format, which is designed to give audiences an exciting, live, theatrical experience that is at once immersive, enlightening and eduactional. Under consideration for future solo adaptations are other classic novels and short stories by: Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe Charlotte Bronte Nathaniel Hawthorne Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Franz Kafka Mary Shelley Jean Jacques Rouseau Jonathan Swift Washington Irving �and other great authors! |
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| American poet, critic, and short story writer who contributed greatly to the genres of horror and science fiction. Poe is now considered the father of the modern detective story and highly lauded as a poet. Poe�s psychologically thrilling tales examining the depths of the human psyche earned him much fame during his lifetime and after his death. His own life was marred by tragedy at an early age (his parents died before he was three years old) and in his oft-quoted works we can see his darkly passionate sensibilities�a tormented and sometimes neurotic obsession with death and violence and overall appreciation for the beautiful yet tragic mysteries of life. |
| Greg Oliver Bodine*� is an actor and writer who has performed his critically acclaimed, solo adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at theaters, libraries, colleges and high schools since 2003. Greg's other adaptations include The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing by Thomas Hardy and Plautus' The Pot of Gold. For more biographical info on Greg, please click here or visit his website at www.gregoliverbodine.com For more info on A Christmas Carol, please visit www.xmascarol.net. * Member of Actors' Equity Association � Member of The Dramatists Guild of America |