Don’t miss this one-night-only staged reading of John Glore’s Creep.
In Creep (adapted from stories by Edgar Allan Poe), a wealthy man has holed up inside his castle with several hundred of his closest friends to escape the plague that devastated the populace on the other side of the castle’s stone walls. The moneyed elite can only wait out the devastation, but what better way to do so on this All Hallows Eve than with a costume ball? – and better yet, the celebrants will provide their own entertainment by relating terrifying tales of murder, mayhem and supernatural malice. One by one, the story-tellers do their best to top one another while an Uninvited Guest waits for his turn to curdle their blood with a tale that comes with a deathly surprise at its conclusion. The American master of the poetical macabre provides the stories, accompanied by rock music whose chilling undertow perfectly suits the morbid moods of Mr. Poe.
“The horror component of [Poe’s] writing is really timeless. The things that scared people in his day – mortality, madness, incomprehensible evil and things that go ba-bump in the night – still scare us today”.
“I liked the collision of Poe’s old world with the contemporary sound of that music. It turned the piece into more of an event to think about having a live band playing these songs as interludes, commentary and underscoring for Poe’s stories.”
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