Feb 14—16, 2014
RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE
Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental / From USA
Taking the unique form of an action-opera, this new musical tracks the odd details surrounding Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious last days. Thaddeus Phillips uses innovative scenography, original music and haunting direction to cast Poe in a new light.
Innovative theatre director Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create an action-opera that follows the odd details surrounding Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious last days. Set in September 1849, RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE follows Poe on a tour from Virginia to New York, focusing on a stop in Maryland where a train conductor saw Poe in a stranger’s clothes headed south…where he would die just days later. This new musical informed by 19th century train routes, historical accounts and Poe’s letters to his mother-in-law casts Poe in a new light by exploring his writings on the gold rush, furniture and the universe.
Info
Venue
Emerson Paramount Center
Robert J. Orchard Stage
559 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111
“At times funny, at times heartbreaking, and from quirky start to haunting finish a feast of entrancing visual allurements.”
— The New York Times
“This exquisite show is among the most original musical theater works I’ve seen in years.”
— The New York Times
“…the show’s concept is compelling..”
— Stage Magazine
“This show begs and beggars description; it is at once high Romanticism and extreme avant-garde, filled with mysterious and often gorgeous effects, both aural and visual.”
— The Philadelphia Inquirer