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Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe stands alone in the flickering darkness, trying desperately to convince himself that he’s not mad. Three brilliant tales spring from his troubled mind, tales that Poe himself considered among his best: The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart. Adapted by award-winning playwright Eric Coble, Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe captures both the poetry and the spine-chilling terror of Poe’s originals. This is a haunting and highly theatrical staging of the work of one of America’s greatest authors and a true master of the macabre. Eckerd Theater Company Eckerd Theater Company (ETC) is a touring company of professional artists, educators and administrators under the umbrella of The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute, the education center for Ruth Eckerd Hall at the Richard B. Baumgardner Center for the Performing Arts in Clearwater, FL. ETC seeks to provide the finest in performance and arts education experiences to family audiences of all ages. Since its inception in 1988, Eckerd Theater Company has performed for more than one million young people and their families throughout the state of Florida and in venues as far north as Canada and as far west as the Mississippi River. From eight local performances of its first production in 1988 through 179 performances in the 2008-2009 season, ETC has been a proud ambassador of Ruth Eckerd Hall, creating professional productions of original works, adaptations of classic literature, and the finest published scripts for the theater. ETC productions entertain while they explore such themes as diversity, multiculturalism, self-worth, loyalty and tolerance. ETC began touring the state of Florida in 1991. National touring began in 1993. Since 1996, the Company has been on the Florida Arts on Tour roster, a state program providing funds to allow productions to travel to remote and underserved parts of the state. In 1998, Julia Flood took the reins as ETC Artistic Director. In 1999, a State of Florida Challenge Grant provided funds for The Florida Project, a collaborative process bringing national and Florida theater artists and educators together to develop a new theater-for-young-audiences piece about the South. ETC was invited to showcase at both the Southern Arts Exchange in 1999, and at the 2002 International Showcase of Performing Arts for Young People, performing alongside companies from Germany, Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Since February 2003, Eckerd Theater Company has made its home in the 182-seat Murray Studio Theater in The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute.

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Background Information

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 to two traveling stage actors, David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins. Both of Poe’s parents died before Edgar reached the age of three. Some reports state they died within days of each other, others that David died in 1810. Elizabeth likely died Dec. 8, 1811. Orphaned, Poe was separated from his brother and sister and went to live with John and Frances Allan of Richmond. In 1812, Poe was christened Edgar Allan Poe (with the Allans presumably serving as godparents). Poe’s early education consisted of schooling in London as well as America. In 1826, Poe began studying at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (a school founded by Thomas Jefferson). He later left the University of Virginia over a matter of gambling debts and enlisted in the United States Army. After brief service in the army, Poe spent a few months at West Point. By the age of 22, Poe had already published three books of poetry. In 1836, Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia. They remained married until her death in 1847. During this time, Poe continued to write and work for several publications as both editor and contributor, producing such works as The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven. When Virginia died in 1847, Poe was devastated by his loss and wrote, “Deep in

the earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.” Poe sank into depression after Virginia’s death. He wrote less frequently and turned to alcohol. In 1849, he was found on the streets of Baltimore in a feverish stupor, wearing clothes that were not his. The last moments of his life were spent drifting in and out of consciousness in the Washington College Hospital.

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Poe’s Influence on Literature Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer and literary critic. His influence on literature has been immense, affecting writers such as Jules Verne, Charles Baudelaire, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Fyo-dor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Ar-thur Conan Doyle, among others. His short story Murders in the Rue Morgue and his three tales featuring Auguste Dupin created the de-tective story genre. Poe is also credited with master-ing the short story, especially psychological horror stories. It has even been argued that Poe was the father of modern science fiction. Poe defined poetry as the “rhythmical creation of beauty.” In poetry, he displayed a propensity for rhythmic effect, particularly in poems such as The Bells, The Raven and Annabel Lee. The first line of The Raven is a good example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...” He also frequently made use of alliteration and onomato-poeia. While Edgar Allan Poe is widely associated with gro-tesque and gothic themes, he also shows evidence of humor and satire in his short stories and literary criticism (e.g., The Devil in the Belfry, The Duc de l’Omelette, Never Bet the Devil Your Head). His per-sonal experiments with writing contributed to the de-velopment of his literary theories and criticism. The latter was at times quite scathing. Poe is quoted as saying the purpose of literature is “to amuse by arousing thought.” Certainly many of his writings are thought-provoking while amusing and suspenseful. Popular association of Poe’s work is entrenched in the complexity of the human mind, particularly in the darkness of fear, guilt and obsession. Stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado and The Fall of the House of Usher have been reinter-preted and reproduced in films and popular televi-sion programs such as Star Trek, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Simpsons. Thus, Edgar Allan Poe’s legacy as a master of suspense lives on two centuries after his birth.

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“curtain” suggests a darker, more foreboding atmos-phere. Tapping and rapping are also examples of ono-matopoeia in the following lines from The Raven:

“...suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”

Another example is the word “buzz,” which suggests, as well as refers to, the sound made by bees. Poe was a master at employing rhythm and sound to ad-vantage. In The Bells, his poetry mimics the chiming of instruments:

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells… Irony is another device appreciated by Poe. For example, in The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor ironically shows concern for Fortunato’s health, even though he intends to kill him. He also appears to try to talk Fortunato out of trying the Amontillado (sherry), even though Montressor clearly wants to get Fortunato drunk. Even Fortunato’s name is ironic, since death by starvation and dehydra-tion as a result of being buried alive in a wall does not coincide with his “fortunate” name. Hyperbole (exaggeration) is another device used in The Cask of Amontillado when Montressor refers to “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could.” The injuries may have been many, but one thou-sand is clearly not a factual count. Poe uses metaphor when he refers to the drunken Fortu-nato’s eyes as “two filmy orbs…” In The Raven, he also refers to the night as a “Plutonian shore,” referring to the god of the underworld (Pluto). Foreshadowing is another favorite device used by Poe. The appearance of the raven as the narrator ponders the death of his beloved Lenore is one example. The beat-ing of the dead man’s heart in The Tell-Tale Heart is an-other. When Fortunato states (in The Cask of Amontil-lado), “I shall not die of a mere cough,” it foreshadows his death of starvation and dehydration, buried alive. Poe was a master at using these and other literary de-vices to increase the impact of his writing.

Literary Forms and Devices A short story is a condensed work of fiction that gener-ally has a small number of characters engaged in a sin-gle action with a specific thematic focus. It can be read at one sitting. During the 1800s, many writers began to consider the short story as a separate form of literature. Edgar Allan Poe was perhaps the most important writer to analyze short stories as a distinct literary form. One of the elements of a short story particularly important to him was “unity of effect.” It was imperative to Poe that all elements of a story contribute to a single emotional impact. The first book about writing short stories, The Philosophy of the Short Story (1901) by Brander Mat-thews, an American critic, contained many of Poe’s ideas. Romanticism is a style in the fine arts and literature. It emphasizes passion rather than reason, and imagination and intuition rather than logic or science. Romanticism favors full expression of the emotions, and free or spon-taneous action rather than restraint and order. The Ro-mantic Movement usually refers to the period from around 1750 to 1870. During this movement, most writ-ers were discontented with a commercial, inhuman and standardized world. To escape from modern life, the romantics turned their interest to remote and faraway places, the medieval past, folklore and legends, nature, common people and the supernatural. Romantic litera-ture allowed a freer style of expression and more flexible form. It encouraged the mingling of genres (e.g., tragi-comedy) and favored convoluted, fast-paced plots and complex characters. By using first-person narration in his stories, Poe draws us into the state of mind of his char-acters, allowing us to identify more effectively with them, adding to the horror effect and intensity of the story. One of Poe’s finest talents was his brilliant use of words or diction to describe or set the tone he desired. Two techniques that he used were alliteration and onomato-poeia. Alliteration occurs when two or more words in a sentence begin with the same sound. A “crawling, long and horrible snake” can become more terrifying with al-literation as a “slithering, slippery and slimy snake.” Ex-amples from Poe’s The Raven are: “While I nodded nearly napping” (note the “n” sound) and “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain” using “s.” This line about the rustling purple curtain is also a fine example of onomatopoeia, which is the use of a word or words whose sound imitates the sound represented. The repetitive “s” sounds in the line suggest the sound of rustling curtains. The “ur” sound in “purple” and

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Vocabulary

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Art Form Related What is scenic design?

Scenic designers design the stage sets for plays. The scenic designer meets with the director to exchange ideas about what the sets should look like, which paint shades to use, etc. The scenery must fit the require-ments of the script. The scenic designer might think about questions such as: Does the play take place inside, outside or both? Where is the action taking place: a home, a castle, a

garden? What are the needs of the show? Do actors need to make entrances or exits through a

door? Is there a lot of physical movement in the play that

needs a large, open area? Are there scene changes for which sets have to be

designed to change quickly and easily? What is the mood of the play? Warm and inviting? Cold and frightening? Happy or sad?

Setting the stage

Flat: an oblong wooden frame covered with muslin, can-vas or thin plywood. Flats are painted and joined to-gether to make walls onstage.

Ground rows: flats laid on their sides to make low scen-ery. Sometimes ground rows are made of plywood.

Box set: flats used to make three sides of a room. The audience looks at the set from the open fourth side.

Backdrop: a painted cloth hung across the stage as scenery. Usually backdrops can be raised and lowered by ropes and pulleys from the space above the stage.

Set models Set designers often make scale models of their sets. This gives the director, technicians and actors a chance to see what it will look like. That way everyone has a chance to discuss any problems or difficulties the actors might have with it before the real thing is built. Cos-tumes need to coordinate with the color and style of the set. Looking at a model, the lighting designer can plan where lamps should be placed.

The ground plan The ground plan is a view of the scenery from above the stage.

Elevation

The elevation drawing shows how the scenery will look to the audience.

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Show Related Genre—a particular type or category (of literary work, art, etc.) Propensity—an innate inclination Grotesque—characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion Gothic—a style that emphasizes the grotesque and mysterious Short Story—a relatively brief fictional prose composition that usually develops a single theme or mood Romanticism/Romantic Movement—an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms and rebellion against social conventions Diction—the choice and use of words in speaking and writing Tone—a general quality or atmosphere Alliteration—the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in two or more words in a line of speech or writing for poetic or emphatic effect Onomatopoeia—the formation or use of words that imitate what they denote Satire—a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn Rhythmic effect—effect of the use of a uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like Hyperbole—obvious and intentional exaggeration Irony—in literature, a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated Metaphor—a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

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Expanding the Classroom through Discussion

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Pre-Performance Discussion Questions

1. Have you ever seen a movie or a play based on a book? What kinds of challenges do actors and playwrights have to overcome to successfully portray imaginative or supernatural occurrences (for example: walking through mirrors, having no shadow, or flying)?

2. What words come to mind when you hear the name: Edgar Allan Poe? Even if you haven’t read one of his sto-

ries, what do you imagine he wrote about? 3. What is one of your favorite stories you’d like to see produced as a play? What kinds of changes would you

make to the story to make it come to life with actors, sets and costumes? 4. What are some stories today that seem to have been influenced by Edgar Allan Poe? What themes of romanti-

cism do these current stories share?

Post-Performance Discussion Questions 1. Before you saw Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe, what words did you use to describe Poe’s works in the pre-

performance questions? Which of these characteristics did you see in Eckerd Theater Company’s perform-ance?

2. How were supernatural or imaginative occurrences portrayed (for example: by specific sound effects, make-up,

costumes)? What kinds of pictures or stories did your imagination create when you watched the production? 3. Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe opens with the character of Poe both defending and questioning his own sanity.

Most of Poe’s stories were written with a first person narrator. What do you think? Would a person have to be mad to write about the complex intricacies of guilt, fear, obsession and death? Do you think that Edgar Allan Poe was truly mad, or did he just have a fanciful imagination? Explain your response.

Teacher Guided Activities

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Compare and Contrast Activity If you haven’t already done so, read the information on Poe’s Life provided on page 2 of this study guide. Have stu-dents visit the Poe Museum online and read the section titled “Poe’s Life.” Provide each pupil with a copy of the Venn diagram and ask students to compare and contrast the information they have read about Poe’s life with his writing and the characters and events in his stories. Ask students to write their responses in the appropriate areas of the diagram below.

Poe’s Life Similarities Poe’s Writing

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Teacher Guided Activities

Language Arts: Reading, Literature and Literary Analysis


The Masque of the Red Death: Literary Analysis

Have students read Poe's story The Masque of the Red Death individually, with a partner, or as a class. Use the following questions and instructions for literary analysis:

1. What is the overall mood of this piece? What aspects of language and setting create this mood?

2. Cite examples of alliteration and onomatopoeia.

3. What elements of romanticism do you find in this story?

4. How does Poe manipulate his reader with wordplay and allegory (a tale in prose or verse in which charac-ters, actions or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities)? For example, look up the words “masque” and “mask.” How does Poe play with these ideas in his story?

5. Prince Prospero is the only one who “speaks” in this story (aside from the narrator). What do you think Prince Prospero represents? What does the name “Prospero” suggest to the reader?

6. What do you think is the theme of the story? What is the significance of the prince’s actions of walling himself and his revelers (party-goers) in to escape the “red death”? What is the conclusion of the story?

Note: These questions can be asked as part of a quiz or in cooperative groups.

Additional Resources Ask your school or local librarian for help in locating these books for you and your students! Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume I, Poems by Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Ollive Mabbott The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809 - 1849 by Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson Check out these Internet sites for additional information! www.mysterynet.com/edger-allan-poe/main.shtml

www.eapoe.org http://poedecoder.com/essays/masque/

http://americanheart.org

www.poemuseum.org/poes_life/index.html

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Page 3 – Language Arts: Writing; Science: Biology

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A critique is an article or an essay that gives a critical evaluation of a piece of work (such as a play or book). A critic is a person who examines a piece of work and offers his or her opinion (personal thoughts) as to its value. What was your opinion of Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe? What did you like or dislike about this production? Would you recommend this production to anyone else? Why or why not?

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Epidemics and Pandemics in Our Global Society In the 19th century, when Poe wrote The Masque of the Red Death, an epidemic of tuberculosis was a leading cause of death in cities. This disease, also called consumption, claimed the life of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, Virginia. Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs, but can also impact the kidneys, bones, lymph nodes and brain. It is transmitted by coughing, sneezing, etc. It is possible to be infected with the bacterium without showing symptoms. Of the one-third of the world’s population infected with TB, about one in ten will de-velop active symptoms. If the body’s immune system forms a wall around the bacteria without destroying them, a granuloma (lump) or tubercule is formed. The bacteria can be released and cause infection later if the immune sys-tem becomes compromised.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Edward Trudeau, himself a tuberculosis patient, went to the cool, clean air of the Adiron-dack Mountains in upstate New York to try to regain his health. Experiencing success, Dr. Trudeau became con-vinced that the cool air was instrumental in his recovery. He opened a sanitarium in the small logging town of Sara-nac Lake, New York. The village became an important center for the treatment of tuberculosis. The many porches on homes in town are evidence of this. People who owned cottages took in patients who would sleep on the porches in the crisp mountain air. Sleeping porches are still an integral part of many homes in the area. In the early 1800s, some people considered tuberculosis a “romantic” disease that affected artists, poets and peo-ple in “high society.” Actually, the spread of tuberculosis was caused by industrialization and overcrowding, thus becoming a social problem as well as a medical condition. The “red death” in Poe’s story reflected the destructive nature of tuberculosis in the 19th century, but his story still has meaning in the 21st century.

Activity: Read Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. In groups or as individuals, research the effects of modern epidemics such as tuberculosis or AIDS on today’s soci-ety. What lessons can we learn from The Masque of the Red Death? What actions can responsible citizens take to avoid the fate of the ignorant Prince Prospero in light of these modern “red deaths”? What response would you suggest if swine flu becomes a pandemic? With global travel easy and prevalent, the spread of disease around the world has been facilitated. Isolated epidemics that remain restricted to one country are less likely in a world in which air travel between countries is common. Information in part courtesy of http://encarta.msn.com/text_761576449_0/Tuberculosis.html

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Understanding Blood, Blood Flow and the Heart Blood low in oxygen is brought into the right side of the heart (right atrium) by the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava. Oxygen-rich blood enters the left atrium via the pulmonary vein. The mitral and tricuspid valves enable the flow of blood from the left atrium and right atrium into the left and right ventricles. From the right ventricle, blood is pumped out through the pulmonic valve into the pulmonary artery and then to the lungs, where it picks up fresh oxygen. Then it travels back through the pulmonary veins to the left atrium. Blood from the left ventricle is pumped through the aortic valve into the aorta and then into the body, eventually returning to the heart through the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava as oxygen-poor blood.

Diagram courtesy of www,niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/GraphicsGallery/CardiovascularSystem/DiagramofHeart... Answer the questions below. If you don’t know the answers, look them up online (see websites below) or in the li-brary. The heart is a very important and interesting organ.

1. What is meant by blood type? How many types are there? Can you name the main ones?

2. Why might it be important to know your blood type? What could happen if you needed blood and were given the wrong type?

3. How do the various blood types differ from each other?

4. What cells are contained in the blood? What are their functions?

5. What are the main parts of the heart? Why is blood pumped to the lungs? 6. Indicate the direction of blood flow to and from the heart on the diagram above. Information courtesy of http://encarta.msn.com/text_761564042__0/Blood_Type.html, http://encarta.msn.com/text_761578429__22/Blood.html, http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/heartworks/bloodflow.aspx

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the Children's Theatre Foundation of America; and the Leading Ladies of Ruth Eckerd Hall.


Additional Resources Ask your school or local librarian for help in locating these books for you! Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume I, Poems by Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Ollive Mabbott The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809 - 1849 by Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson Check out these Internet sites for additional information! www.mysterynet.com/edgar-allan-poe/main.shtml www.eapoe.org http://poedecoder.com/essays/masque/ http://americanheart.org www.poemuseum.org/poes_life/index.html

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