Local Playwright Bring Eerie Poe Tales to Life

Prepare to be mystified and horrified, bewildered and perplexed, as Endless Mountains Theatre Company presents Tales of Dark Imagination! The evening of one-act, Halloween-appropriate dramas is the brainchild of local playwright David Schmidt, who has adapted the work of Edgar Allan Poe for the stage.

Come to the show, and you will take a journey aboard a ghost ship . . . enter the obsessive mind of a self-proclaimed visionary . . . and travel back in time to a medieval castle.

“I have always been a Poe fan,” says Schmidt, “so when I was asked to write a script based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe for a theatre company I belonged to fourteen years ago, I jumped at the opportunity.” He also notes that the show has undergone “a complete transformation from what it was to what it is now.”

To link the three assorted tales, Schmidt inserted a mediator, Baron Ritzner von Jung. Von Jung is a “mystific,” which Schmidt tell us is “a person who likes to play with peoples minds.”

Tales of Dark Imagination is Schmidt’s third original production for EMTC, following on the heels of his recent detective drama, Blondes, Bullets, and Blackmail.

Performances of Tales of Dark Imagination are as follows: Dinner theatre performance at 6:30 pm on Oct. 26 at Mountain View Restaurant (Clifford, PA; doors open for cocktails at 6:00); NON-dinner performance (show only) at 7:00 pm on Oct. 27 at St. Paul’s Church (Montrose, PA); dinner theatre performance at 6:00 pm on Oct. 28 at Green Gables (New Milford, PA; doors open for cocktails at 5:30). For the dinner shows, prices are $26 for dinner & show. Admission to the NON-dinner performance is $7 for students/seniors/members (with membership card), $5 for senior members, and $9 general admission. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE DINNER SHOWS ONLY: Call 570-879-2026.

Parents are advised that the frightening contents of this show may be unsuitable for children under 10.