This week saw the opening night of Threedumb Theatre’s fourth post lockdown production The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Set within the old Church and using the outside areas, cameraman David Smith follows the main protagonist performed by Stephen Smith around the building as he tells us the tale of The Black Cat.
‘Written with intelligence, vigour & energy’: THE SUGAR SYNDROME – Orange Tree Theatre
Excellent revival of Lucy Prebble’s disturbing debut play The Sugar Syndrome about loneliness, the internet and illegal desire.
‘A Christmas play with the power to disturb & provoke’: THE TELL-TALE HEART – National Theatre
Can you really turn a three-page short story into a full-length play? What would you add, and how would you avoid accusations of padding? Anthony Neilson’s new version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, a classic gothic chiller which was first published in 1843, has to confront this issue head-on
REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Tell-Tale Heart at the National Theatre
The Tell-Tale Heart by Anthony Neilson is based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews of the production currently playing at the National Theatre.
‘A modern-day Christmas turkey’: THE TELL-TALE HEART – National Theatre
Expectations are high for a festive ghost story from the National. With its world-class resources, the theatre offers a wondrous potential to stage the most chilling of tales and when the source material is a famed Edgar Allan Poe short chiller, the anticipation is only heightened. But in Anthony Neilson’s The Tell-Tale Heart transplant, Poe’s gloriously gothic original is served up as a modern-day Christmas turkey.
The Pit & the Pendulum Q&A video: What would Edgar Allan Poe say to a prisoner in modern Iran?
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story The Pit & the Pendulum in 1842, inspired by the idea of a political prisoner tormented during the Spanish Inquisition.
‘Innovative reinterpretation’: THE PIT & THE PENDULUM – Omnibus Theatre
The work of Edgar Allan Poe wouldn’t be the most obvious choice for such an innovation, but Christopher York has adapted Poe’s short story The Pit & the Pendulum and transposed it to modern-day Tehran.
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri to immerse yourself in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit & the Pendulum
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 13 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the creators of Creation Theatre’s sonic-immersive new adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum. Got any questions?
NEWS: Director Peter Brook returns in National Theatre season which also features new plays from Nina Raine & Anthony Neilson
Details have been announced for the National Theatre’s season running from July 2018 to January 2019. Highlights include Peter Brook returning to direct at the NT for the first time in 50 years with The Prisoner, plus new plays from Nina Raine and Anthony Neilson.