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Edgar Allan

This delicious tale is a dark comic treat worth sinking your teeth into

This delicious tale is a dark comic treat worth sinking your teeth into

(The Coldharts)

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Company:The Coldharts

Genre: Play - Dramedy

Venue: 2- MTC Up The Alley

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The gently sweet sound of a ukulele and a sinister smile set the stage for this darkly delicious tale, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.

With a sometimes slow, but sinister,build, it follows Edgar Allan, an over-achieving and precocious boarding schoolstudent confident in his superiority until he meets a new classmate with whom he shares more than a few similarities.

A relationship develops between the two misfits that's both a strange friendship and a fierce rivalry.

Katie Hartman plays the loquacious Edgar with gawkish and malevolent glee, savouring the script's sharp writing. Nick Ryan's raspy-voiced turn as Edgar's rival is delightfully odd.

Edgar Allan is a dark comic treat.- Joff Schmidt

A dark comic treat.