WordStage Presents an Eerie Evening Based on Works of Hawthorne and Poe

Fri 10/29 @ 7:30PM

WordStage Literary Concerts is back to live performing, and just in time for Halloween. In keeping with the season, it’ll be presenting a double bill based on some of the highest-quality writing done about tragedy, mystery and romance, by two American master writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Christopher P. Nolan has created dramatic treatments of Hawthorne’s 1844 short story “Rappacini’s Daughter,” about a young woman who becomes poisonous herself after tending to a garden poisonous plants. And Jeffrey Hatcher has put together excerpts from Poe’s writings into a one-act play called “Murder by Poe.” The ten-member ensemble will perform to ominous music by Erik Satie, Camille Saint-Saens, and Edvard Grieg, played by Patrick Wickliffe.

The performance takes place in the Wright Chapel of the Lakewood Presbyterian Church. Masks are requested. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for seniors and students. Go here for more information and tickets.

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