NEVERMORE - SUNDAY MATINEE FOR MOTHER'S DAY WITH HIGH TEA

Nevermore A Mysterious Musical based on the loves, life and creative passions of Edgar Allen Poe Nevermore, a mysterious musical that draws new breath into Edgar Allan Poe's poetry and prose to ink-in his life's passions. This imaginative musical uses Poe's poetry and short stories as its base and his shifting obsession with the women in his life as its catalyst. With beautiful haunting melodies, Nevermore breathes new life into Poe's work and explores a twisted true-life tale that is as bizarre as his classic stories of the macabre. Brace yourself to be immersed into the world of Edgar Allen Poe. His words as with his life were filled with themes of love, hate, hope, horror, passion, and fear. It was a time when Romanticism and Surrealism were competing to capture the imagination. Where the industrial revolution was in full swing astounding the perceived limitation of a mechanised world with seemingly boundless advancement. Gas and steam drove a powerhouse of invention. It was a time of revolt against the aristocratic society and political norms. A time of Beethoven, Dickens and Darwin. A time where the telegraph and the railway were expanding the world at a rapid pace. Thus exploding a reactionary embrace of the exotic and unfamiliar, that harnessed the power of the imagination to envision and to escape. Nevermore brings to life the man, Edgar Allen Poe. Through the women he loved and the women he lost, Poe takes us on a mysterious journey filled from passionate elation to trappings of his tortured soul. This new and impassioned musical weaves its tale tantalising our senses, embracing our anguish and inspiring our innermost verse. The works of Edgar Allan Poe are more universal than one might suspect at first glance. Particularly his poetry filled with rhythm, and dramatic sounds that inspires. Even Poe, critically panned in his day for his 'musicality' as a writer, felt that true beauty was the combination of music and poetry. Thus was born the collaboration of Nevermore with a lyricist 200 years old. You may be familiar with some of Poe’s works such as ’the House of Usher’ and ‘The Raven’. Poe is considered to have developed ground breaking genres in writing as father of the Detective Story and being an accredited influence on Jules Vern’s Science Fiction stories. Music by Matt Conner, Lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Book by Grace Barnes Director: Jenny M Ferguson. Musical Director: Joshua Webb May 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at 8pm On the 12th May a special Mother’s Day 2pm Matinee with High Tea For further details - www.playlovers.org.au Tickets available on-line: www.playlovers.org.au or bookings@playlovers.org.au or 0415 777 173 Venue: Hackett Hall, Draper St, Floreat.