[NEohioPAL] WordStage presents 'An Edgar Allan Poe Spooktacular

[Tim Tavcar]

WordStage, a Chamber Music Theater presents:An Edgar Allan Poe Spooktacular!"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." 
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

　 ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! - Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 8:00pm
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. 
This WordStage presentation will feature some of Poe's most memorable Tales & Poems, including The Conqueror Worm, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart and, of course, The Raven, read by actors Michael Mauldin, Christine Sell and Tim Tavcar. 
Poe's phantasmagoric poetry and prose will be underscored and enhanced by properly eerie and atmospheric Pipe Organ Music, played on the West Shore Universalist Church's 1963, 3 manual 33 rank Holtkamp organ played by Akron Organist, Accompanist of the Akron Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Music Director of the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Richard Shirey.
The Edgar Allan Poe Spooktacular will be performed for one night only – Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 8:00pm at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church – 20401 Hilliard Blvd in Rocky River, OH Suggested Admission prices are $20 General , $15 Seniors (62+) $10 Students through college. WordStage also maintains a "PAY WHAT YOU CAN" policy to help make all their performances accessible to all, regardless of individual financial situations. Tickets available by advance reservation or beginning at 7:00pm at West Shore UUC on the evening of the performance
Call 216-712-6926 for more information or visit www.wordstagevt.com for further information.
　　
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