Innovative theater director Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create an action-opera that follows the odd details surrounding Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious last days. Set in September 1849, RED- EYE to HAVRE de GRACE follows Poe on a tour from Virginia to New York, focusing on a stop in Maryland where a train conductor saw Poe in a stranger’s clothes headed south...where he would die just days later. This new musical informed by 19th century train routes, historical accounts and Poe’s letters to his mother-in-law casts Poe in a new light by exploring his writings on the gold rush, furniture and the universe.
“THIS EXQUISITE SHOW IS AMONG THE MOST ORIGINAL MUSICAL THEATER WORKS I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS” —The New York Times
ABOUT LUCIDITY SUITCASE INTERCONTINENTAL
Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental is a highly enigmatic theatre team that uses improvisations, objects, maps, photos, stories, languages, music and transforming scenography to create original theatre. Lucidity's work has been presented Off-Broadway and on tour across the USA, Europe and South America.
RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Cast
Created by | Thaddeus Phillips |
Jeremy Wilhelm | |
Geoff Sobelle | |
David Wilhelm | |
with | Sophie Bortolussi |
Creative
Creative Consultant | Teller |
Choreography by | Sophie Bortolussi |
Lighting by | Drew Billiau |
Sound by | Rob Kaplowitz |
Constumes by | Rosemarie McKelvew |
Music by | Wilhelm Bros. & Co. |
Supertitle Design | Spencer Sheridan |
Technical Director | Rajiv Shah |
Tour Technical Director | Spencer Sheridan |
Designed & Directed by | Thaddeus Phillips |
Info
- Location: Emerson/Paramount Center Mainstage
- By: Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
- Collaborators: Thaddeus Phillips, Jeremy Wilhelm, Geoff Sobelle, David Wilhelm, Sophie Bortolussi
- Music by: Wilhelm Bros. & Co.
- Directed and Stage Design by: Thaddeus Phillips
- Presented in Association with: Arktype
- Series: Pioneer
- Ages: 12+
- Running Time: 100 minutes with no intermission