The Tell-Tale Farce

Run dates: April 3-6 & 10-13, 2025

Directed by Elizabeth Shaffer

It's 1848, and Edgar Allan Poe is just coming off the spectacular success of "The Raven." Unfortunately, it's only earned him a grand total of nine dollars. So when a wealthy dowager commissions him to write her a poem for the vast sum of one hundred dollars, he leaps at the chance. Only problem: the man who shows up to write the poem isn't Poe, he's Poe's mailman, and he's on a quest to woo the dowager's spinster niece. Playing Poe is harder than it looks, though, especially when your mustache keeps falling off, the teenage grand-daughter of the house is lusting after you, and Poe's arch-nemesis, Rufus Griswold, just happens to be dropping by to settle old scores. It’s a freewheeling, closet-hiding, door-slamming farce with an hilarious touch of the macabre!  

Edgar/Richard Muffinbridge :  Eric Landuyt 

Edgar Allen Poe (the real one) :  Derek Bolme 

Rufus Griswold:   Eric Friedman 

Henry Whitford:  Jacob Lund 

Brinsley:  David Shaffer 

Mary:  Cali Van Zandt 

Helena Dowling:  Elizabeth Hulsbrink 

Sarah  Dowling:  Dana Skiles 

Abigail  Dowling:  Shyan DeVoss 

Director:  Elizabeth Shaffer

Stage Manager:  Pat Kelly

Light and sound designer: Dana Skiles 

Light and sound operator: Lena DeLellis 

Costumes: – Suzanne Rakestraw 

Set builders: – Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles