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Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror tale. A young caretaker fights for survival as she takes revenge on her captor in this bold, brave and unnerving one woman show.
Produced by Raven Productions Australia, directed by David Halgren and starring Hannah Raven. In these bazar and uneasy times of social isolation and domestic violence, no story in the history of literature speaks volumes of the loneliness and uncertainty people feel than Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. This one woman psychological thriller follows a young woman who finds herself slowly consumed by her isolating circumstances. As the caretaker of an elderly man in the early 1800's, she finds her days and nights bleeding into one another as her lonely and isolating existence begins to fill her mind with perverse and violent fantasies of escapism. This begins as a rather palpable disdain for the old man, citing that it is his ‘vulture eye’ that vexes her, always watching her, controlling her every move. Our protagonist begins to plot the meticulous murder of the old man, and as the plan unfolds, we begin to ask ourselves are we witnessing someone’s descent into madness or have we just been privy to the workings of an evil genius.
Raven Productions’ feminist interpretation of The Tell-Tale Heart is bold, brave, and unnerving.
Raven Productions Australia is a unique company of actors and performance artists who bring to life Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of the macabre, morbid, quirky and comical. Raven Productions Australia is the nation’s only theatrical production company dedicated to presenting works inspired by the great Edgar Allan Poe. Since establishing themselves in 2013, their productions have played at Slide Bar on Oxford St, at Sydney’s famous Vanguard Theatre to sold out audiences and toured to The Adelaide Fringe. In 2022 their production of The Grotesque and Arabesque won the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival Theatre Award.
Date and Time: 5-7 September 2024 at 7.30pm
Booking Link: https://sydneyfringe.com/
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Venue
Flow Studio @ 57 Denison St, Camperdown, NSW 2050