Attendees are asked to show up as their favorite Poe character. The Halloween show will feature a "Mask of the Red Death" ball immediately following the performance. Opening-night tickets will be $75 apiece, including a buffet and champagne, with half the proceeds going to the homeless and half going to the needy Theatre Downtown. Since Poe died penniless, Hilgenberg thought it appropriate to tie the opening night of Poe to the Coalition for the Homeless activities planned nationwide Saturday. There's a lot of sensitivity to the guy." "There's so much sensuality, so much eroticism to it. "What this boils down to is a love story," Zelley says. Zelley and Hilgenberg note that Poe was deeply romantic and had an all-consuming love of women.
And the dead come back to haunt him - in particular, his stepfather and his wife. Real people in his life turn into the characters in his writing as Poe drifts in and out of consciousness. The play has a surreal quality as it flows quickly from reality into delusion and back again. "He began to recite 'The Raven,' which was being read all over the United States at that time." "He gets drunker and drunker in the play, starts reciting poetry and starts to flash money," Hilgenberg says. He wouldn't drink just a glass of wine or two at dinner - he'd drink the whole bottle."Īnd although Poe always feared insanity, alcohol quickly put him over the edge, Hilgenberg says. "He got very drunk after only one or two drinks, and he wouldn't stop. "He had a problem with alcohol," Zelley says.
Hilgenberg and the others who worked on Poe speculated that the writer was so shaken by the sight of the young prostitute that he snapped psychologically. A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including: The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. All the clothing, the finery from New York - the leather valise, the capes, the cane - were gone. "Historically, all we know is that he was found in an alley, stripped, had been beaten several times and was essentially wearing beggar's clothes. "When Poe sees Lily the child prostitute, the play takes a surreal turn," Hilgenberg says. Virginia Clemm was the inspiration for many of his love poems. Suddenly, he spots a child prostitute who reminds him of his deceased wife, whom he married when she was just a girl.
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