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Drama: Psychological

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31/10/2014

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Psychological drama inspired by true events from the life of Edgar Allan Poe.

Psychological drama inspired by true events from the life of Edgar Allan Poe. The writer faces his demons while locked up overnight in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison.

Moyamensing: Scenes From
The Life, Death & Dreams Of Edgar Allan Poe
By Marty Ross

Recorded live at the CCA Glasgow.

Edgar Allan Poe - drunk, desolate, death-haunted - finds things
getting worse as he is locked overnight in Philadelphia's
Moyamensing Prison where his worst nightmares await him. An obscure
but true incident from the closing act of Poe's tragic life inspires a
surreal, scary and darkly comic psychological portrait of the tragic
genius.

Poe left an account not only of his incarceration in Moyamensing, but
also of the hallucinations he suffered therein: horrors to match
anything in his fiction, but strange beauties too. Follow him through
encounters with sinister guards, hungry rats, a murderous doppelganger
and a surgeon over-keen to wield his saw on the living, but also a
meeting with a sublimely beautiful woman echoing more than one of the
women Poe loved and lost.


Edgar Allan Poe .............................................................. JOHN KIELTY
Campaigner/Blaney/Mutterer 1/Guard 1/Eddy...... STEVEN McNICOLL
Muddy/Prisoner 1/nurse.......................................JULIET CADZOW
Train Barman/Train guard/Prisoner 3/...........................IAIN AGNEW
Sawbones/Morning Guard/Doctor................................IAIN AGNEW
Scutt/Mutterer 2/Guard 2......................................GAVIN JON WRIGHT
Ma Murgatroyd/Lady passenger/Prisoner 2/................. CAT GROZIER
Tower woman/Virginia .............................................. CAT GROZIER

Producer/Director - David Ian Neville.

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