Oak Park Festival Theatre's production promenades through the Cheney Mansion.
Staged in various rooms throughout Oak Park's Cheney Mansion, David Rice's clever and moving promenade-style show (directed by Skyler Schrempp), interweaves long passages from Edgar Allan Poe's better-known writings ("The Raven,""Annabel Lee,""The Masque of the Red Death,""The Tell-Tale Heart") with original biographical material to create a portrait of a desperate, half-mad writer inspired by and deeply obsessed with his child bride and her tragic early death. (Virginia Clemm was only 13 when she married Poe, and only 24 when she died of TB.)…
Oak Park Festival Theatre's production promenades through the Cheney Mansion.
Staged in various rooms throughout Oak Park's Cheney Mansion, David Rice's clever and moving promenade-style show (directed by Skyler Schrempp), interweaves long passages from Edgar Allan Poe's better-known writings ("The Raven,""Annabel Lee,""The Masque of the Red Death,""The Tell-Tale Heart") with original biographical material to create a portrait of a desperate, half-mad writer inspired by and deeply obsessed with his child bride and her tragic early death. (Virginia Clemm was only 13 when she married Poe, and only 24 when she died of TB.)…