Halloween's Tell-Tale Heart: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and Flannery O'Connor at Tennessee Shakespeare Company

The fifth Salon of nine during TSC's 13th season, Halloween's Tell-Tale Heart: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and Flannery O'Connor is curated and directed by TSC's Stephanie Shine with Dr. Diane Dombrowski. It will be presented both in-person on TSC's Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage and simulcast online beginning at 8:00 pm (CDT), to be followed by a brief talkback with the actors.

The Salon will run approximately one hour.

The Acting Company includes Dan McCleary, Michael Khanlarian, Lauren Gunn, Jasmine Robertson, Simmery Branch, Ural Grant, Tristin Hicks, John Ross Graham, and Blake Currie. (All artist bios MAY be found in TSC's digital playbill at www.tnshakespeare.org)

Interspersed with conversation about the authors and the creation of their works, the Salon will feature short stories by O'Connor (The Life You Save MAY Be Your Own, 1955), Bierce (The Boarded Window, 1891), and Poe (The Masque of the Red Death, 1842). McCleary will read Poe's poem, The Raven (1845)