THE POE SHOW INFECTS THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

The Poe Show

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Los Angeles, CA—THE POE SHOW continues to infects the Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Theatre Asylum on July 9th.

Edgar Allan Poe has his own late-night talk show: The Poe Show! Brendan Hunt (writer/star of Absolutely Filthy, Winner of Best Male Performance 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival ) stars as late-night talk show host Edgar Allan Poe with Ed Goodman (Toddler Bangs America, 2014 Spirit of the Fringe Writing Nominee) as Poe’s sidekick and wingman, The Raven. Directed by Scott Leggett (Neverwhere), THE POE SHOW INFECTS THE FRINGE pulls the best material from eight, full episodes of The Poe Show previously performed at the Sacred Fools Theater in Los Angeles and is an explosive blend of tightly scripted pieces and improvisation.

Writer/Creator Ed Goodman packs a lot of material into this 55 minute romp through what looks like a modern talk show format set in the 1800’s. The Poe Show consists of guest interviews, monologues, sketches, “on-air” commercials, and variety acts all performed live in front of a studio audience. Linda Muggeridge’s costumes help the show maintain its period look while Goodman’s sound design pushes yet another edge of the show’s reality. Goodman did not limit his material to Poe’s lifetime, pulling from 100 years of literature and history. This gives the Poe Show a feel of “blended time,” which ends up feeling much more like a show that exists in memory rather than a fixed point in time.

The show also features Gillian Bellinger, Fringe award winner Michael Shaw Fisher (Shakespeare’s Last Night Out), Peter Fluet (Cookie and the Monster), Eric Curtis Johnson, Carrie Keranen, Lauren Van Kurin (King Of Kong: A Musical Parody), Cj Merriman (R&J). Dana DeRuyck (Fifty Shades of Shrew) understudies the female cast.

Produced by Ed Goodman and Jeremy Aldridge, The Poe Show opens June 13th at Theater Asylum at 10 pm and its initial run consists of three more shows throughout the Fringe Festival (http://hff15.org/2324). Bitter Lemons picked the Poe Show as one of the Top 10 Shows to see at the Fringe this year.