Stephen Horne and Elizabeth-Jane Baldry will premiere their musical collaboration on this title, to be reprised at the Barbican, London in April.ĭir. He spends his days painting an eerily lifelike portrait of Madeline, but with each brushstroke the life seems to drain from her.Įpstein's version changes the relationship of Madeline and Roderick from brother and sister to husband and wife but matches the horror and menace of Poe's story, with weird, surreal images and an insidious atmosphere conveyed by the glowering halls, fluttering curtains, and nightmarish suggestiveness of the veil and coffin. 1 The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities. obsessed by death, consumed with fear that his beloved wife Madeline will die, and no less fearful that she will be buried alive. ' The Fall of the House of Usher ' is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. He immediately feels depression and fear when he sees the mansion. Get ready to be haunted by this brooding and impressionistic adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's creepy Gothic tale of obsession and madness.Īn unnamed man pays a visit to the decaying, aristocratic mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher. The story opens with the narrator riding alone on a cloudy autumn day to the House of Usher.
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