Celebrate Poe's Bicentennial With Radiotheater Starting 1/25
By: Gabrielle Sierra Dec. 18, 2008
Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's Bicentennial (1809-2009) with the critically acclaimed, award winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on stage, a year-long presentation of seventeen major works by the grand master of American horror!
Included are: THE TELL TALE HEART, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE HOUSE OF USHER, MORELLA, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, BERENICE, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, Annabel Lee, HOP FROG, THE OVAL PORTRAIT, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, THE CASE OF MR.VALDEMAR, WILLIAM WILSON, LIGEIA and THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE...all newly adapted audio works for the stage by Dan Bianchi, complete with our great cast of storytellers, special guests, original orchestral scores and a plethora of sound effects!
Join us in our celebration every last Sunday of the month at 2pm at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and A) beginning January 25.
Tickets ($18) are available by calling Smarttix at or online at www.horseTRADE.info.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic and is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe switched his focus from poetry to prose and spent several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, and tuberculosis. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world. His work appears throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.
Dan Bianchi has spent over 30 years in theater and film as an Independent Theatre artist which includes writing, directing, producing, set and lighting design, music and sound design, graphics, PR. He founded RADIOTHEATRE in 2005 and has since produced/ written/directed MADHOUSE; HARDBOILED 1; HARDBOILED 2; WAR OF THE WORLDS (Nominated 2005 NYIT Award) ; KING KONG 2005; THE PIGMAN OF DELANCEY STREET (Nominated for two 2006 NYIT Awards); THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET (Nominated for two 2007 NYIT Awards;) THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU 2006, KING KONG 2007; WAR OF THE WORLDS 2007; THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE TIME MACHINE; THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU 2007 (Winner Best Original Music & Best Sound Design 2008 NYIT Awards); KING KONG 2008; THE MOLE PEOPLE; DRACULA. Also: founder/Artistic Director of four international theater companies, written and directed over 50 plays and musicals, screenwriter in Hollywood, directed 7 motion pictures with members of the Royal Shakespeare Co., won three-times Best Director Off Broadway, twice The Beckett Prize, the ASCAP Musical Theater Award, Billy Rose Theater Award, the National Writers Guild Screenwriting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a National Humanities Grant. Written/Directed feature film 2004: THE EVIL KILLERS. He founded VIDEOTHEATRE, NYC's only year round DV-dedicated indie theater. He is also a visual artist whose works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, MOMA, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Museum of Non -Conformism, Russia, etc.
WHAT IS RADIOTHEATRE?
Well, we're NOT an authentic re-creation of old time radio shows...
Rather, we are inspired by the artistry created during the Golden Years of Radio when SOUND was king and STORY TELLING, along with great voices, music and sound effects...as well as, the individual imaginations of its audiences ...were the primary ingredients used to provide a memorable, live, theatrical experience. It's not much different than the earliest form of Theatre...telling tales around a campfire in the dark where all of one's attention is focused upon the Narrator. However, primitive it might sound, it's still the most powerful means of intellectual stimulation, wherein, the audience is invited to participate by conjuring the images in their own minds...something they are not required to do very often these days. Of course, we do like to add some 21st Century touches...such as fully scored orchestral sound tracks which you won‘t hear anywhere else, a plethora of aural effects and, sometimes, a few visuals, too! As for our stories content, RADIOTHEATRE draws its inspiration from the Pulp Fiction Era when genres such as Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction and Crime dominated the American popular culture...all genres which have been thoroughly mined and exploited by Literature, Cinema and TV, but, generally ignored or spoofed in the Theatre world. Our cinematic scripts and presentational format allows RADIOTHEATRE to deliver nearly anything ...from King Kong roaring atop the Empire State Building to an explosive invasion from outer space to the inner voice of a demented mind...all of which you won't experience anywhere else on the live stage. So, there's your answer! By combining a unique presentation with non -traditional content, RADIOTHEATRE is a singular theatre company creating modern, innovative stage works.
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