POE MYSTERY DECONSTRUCTED: A new play by performance artist, actor, and puppeteer Thaddeus Phillips explores the final ten days of tempestuous American writer Edgar Allen Poe. Red-Eye to Havre de Grace is being staged as a “psychedelic light opera” on the proscenium stage in the Armstrong Theatre at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. Phillips, a Colorado College grad, depicts Poe as a “schizophrenic who hears something on the train and goes insane. He goes through the wrong door, down the wrong street, and off on an existential adventure The Twilight Zone could never imagine,” according to an article in the 6/30 Denver Post. It portrays what might have happened to Poe during those missing days before he turned up unconscious and near death on a Baltimore street in 1849. The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 30, and Saturday, July 1. Tickets are $5-$15. FMI: 719-389-6607.
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