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Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe
November 15, 2018 | 7:30 pm - November 18, 2018 | 5:00 pm
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The Suffolk University Theatre Department presents
Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Written and directed by Wesley Savick
With puppet and mask creation by Puppet Showplace Theater
November 15-18
Take a journey into Poe’s stories and biography and discover a fantastical world between life and death.
The Suffolk University Theatre Department is proud to announce Wesley Savick’s fantastical play, Loss of Breath: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe. Loss of Breath weaves together Poe’s stories and biography with sideshow illusion, puppetry, and Japanese Noh Theatre. The Puppet Showplace Theater has created puppets and masks to depict a realm between life and death, the dwelling place of Poe, his mother, spouse, Annabel Lee, ghosts and other ghastly creatures.…. and a middle-school English teacher from Indiana.
November 15-18, 2018
Modern Theatre
525 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111
Thursday @ 7:30 p.m.
Friday & Saturday @ 8 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday @ 3 p.m.
Tickets: $15 | $10 students (with valid I.D.) & seniors.
Buy online or call 866.811.4111
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.