Événement

"Edgar Allan" @ Firehouse Arts, Bellingham

The Coldharts present "Edgar Allan," a two-person, dark, musical comedy that follows a pre-adolescent Edgar Allan Poe in his first year at English Boarding School, as he seeks to gain academic ascendancy over the student body. All goes to plan until another boy named Edgar Allan arrives in class... which complicates his schemes of dominance.

"Edgar Allan" is a dark, comedic riff on the the obsessions, the mania, and the insanity that haunted the life and work of America's first professional writer.

"THE PERFECT FRINGE PLAY" - National Post

"A triumph of storytelling" - Edmonton Journal

"A dark, polished gem" - Winnipeg FreePress

"Edgar Allan" premiered at the 2013 Twin Cities Horror Festival and has toured across North America with over 100 performances. It is a six-time "Best of Fest" Winner, was heldover at the 2015 Edmonton Fringe 2015, and has played Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse. The "Edgar Allan" original cast album is an official nominee for the 2019 Saturday Visiter Awards, given by Poe Baltimore.

Appropriate for brave children of all ages.

Created and performed by Katie Hartman & Nick Ryan, in collaboration with Mark Benzel.

The Coldharts is a Brooklyn, NY-based, touring theater company founded by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan in 2012. They create devised, music-theatre inspired by the American Gothic and are founding members of the Twin Cities Horror Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota.