The Big Read

Single Date Events                                              Audience                             Venue                                                     Date

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Hal Poe                                 ADULT                               BAF/ SS Civic & Veterans' Center         Nov. 7th, 1pm

The Cask of Amontillado                                    YOUTH
a dramatization of Poe's story
by the Georgetown Theatre Company

Playback Theatre                                                YOUTH                               Pyramid Atlantic                                 Oct. 9
Interactive improvisation based on                        ADULT                                Pyramid Atlantic                                 Nov. 13, 6:30-8:00pm
Poe's stories and poems

Poe in Person                                                    YOUTH                                Pyramid Atlantic                                 Sept. 25, 8:00-9:00pm
David Keltz's one-man show

What's Eating Edgar Allan Poe?                         YOUTH                               Writer's Center                                  
One-man-and-a-projector show
written by Kelly Dowling

The Nightmare of Edgar Allan Potato Head        YOUTH
Short, award-winning live-action-and-puppet film

Dream Within A Dream      
A film by Chris Lynn

An Evening with Eliza Poe                                  YOUTH                              Writer's Center                                     Oct. 28, 8pm
a reading of several Poe stories, interspersed with
selections of earlier works which influenced him,
hosted by Poe's mother, the actress Eliza Arnold Poe

DC Sonic Circuits                                                ADULTS                             Pyramid Atlantic                                   Nov. 6, 6pm
Local musicians will perform
music to silent film The Fall of the House of Usher

A reading of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry                    ADULTS                             Writer's Center                                     Oct. 31, 2pm
Local Poets will read and discuss how
Poe's work influenced their own poetry.

David Keltz as Edgar Allan Poe

*Event dates and details are subject to change.