[NEohioPAL] WordStage - a Chamber music theater presents "An Edgar Allan Poe Spooktacular"

[Tim Tavcar]

WordStage–
a Chamber music Theater presents
 
An Edgar Allan Poe Spooktacular!
 
Saturday,
October 29, 2011 – 8:00pm
The
West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church
20401
Hilliard Blvd, Rocky River, OH
 
“I became
insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)


Edgar Allan Poe was best known to his own generation as an editor
and critic. His poems and short stories commanded only a small audience. But to
some extent in his poems, and to an impressive degree in his tales, he
pioneered in opening up areas of human experience for artistic treatment at
which his contemporaries only hinted. Poe's classic poem "The Raven"
cemented his reputation as a black-feathered literary master of the
macabre.  His vision asserts that reality
for the human being is essentially subterranean,
contradictory to surface reality, and profoundly irrational in character. Two generations later he was hailed by the Symbolist movement,
particularly in France through the translation of his works by the poet
Stéphane Mallarmé, as the prophet of the modern sensibility.  
 
Performed in the acoustically superb Sanctuary of the West Shore
Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River and employing the use of their 3
manual, 33 rank Holtkamp Organ, this WordStage production will feature some of
Poe’s most memorable Tales & Poems, including The Conqueror Worm, The Cask of Amantillado, The Tell-Tale Heart and,
of course,The Raven - read by actors
Michael L. Maudlin, Christine Sell and Tim Tavcar.  The eerie evening with be further enhanced by
the atmospheric music performed by Akron area organist, accompanist and Music
Director, Richard Shirey.  Selected works
of J.S. Bach, Frederic Chopin, Alun Hoddinott, Olivier Messiaen and Darius
Milhaud will be featured to highlight the words of this Master of the Macabre!
 
Suggested Admissions are $20 General - $15 Seniors (62+) $10
Students through College OR Wordstage maintains a ’’Pay What You Can” policy to
help make our performances accessible to call who wish to attend them.  For information visit our web site at www.wordstagevt.com or call us a
216-712-6926.  “Be there and be Scared”!
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