The Tell Tale Heart Theatre
From:June 16, 2011 20:00 to: June 16, 2011 22:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man.
The murder is carefully calculated and the murderer conceals the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator’s guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that his victim’s heart is still beating under the floorboards.
The Tell-Tale Heart is widely considered to be a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe’s most famous short stories.
Stephen Doyle’s work ranges from physical theatre to the classics. He has toured extensively throughout Europe with his one-man shows ‘Shakespeare Undressed’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’. In his adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart, Doyle creates a world of delicious insanity that is, by turns, funny and hauntingly disturbing.
Adm: €12 / €10. Booking essential.
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