The Global Film Village

Nevermore to play Baltimore

// December 25th, 2009 // Stage Play

by Marla Lewin

Stuart Gordon,  Dennis Paoli and Jeffrey Combs’  terrific work Nevermore, recreating a night with Edgar Allen Poe will next play Baltimore at the Westminster Hall on January 23 and 24. This is Edgar Allen Poe’s bicentennial year and it has been an momentous one for him. A far better year than 1849 when he died at the age of 40 under mysterious circumstances. Poe didn’t receive a proper funeral and his death was not even publicly announced. This year a public funeral was held and a tombstone was finally erected at his grave site at Westminster Burying Ground.  Actors were engaged to portray friends and contemporaries to give a semblance of what should have occurred. All of this was accomplished by the Poe House and Museum of Baltimore, Maryland.

What is next for the production? Based on the enthusiastic crowds it has drawn over the long run here in Los Angeles there should be an extensive  future if audience’s have an opportunity to embrace it in other cities.