The Madness of Edgar Allen Poe: A Love Story presented by Oak Park Festival at Cheney Mansion

It is 1849, two years after the death of his wife Virginia, and Edgar Allan Poe is haunted - not just by the spectre of his beloved, but also by his own macabre mysteries. During the course of David Rice's The Madness of Edgar Allen Poe: A Love Story, Virginia and Edgar guide the audience from room to room through Oak Park's historic Cheney Mansion, taking them from the garrets to the dungeons...and deep into a tortured mind, teetering on the brink of sanity. Come and experience favorites like The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red Death as you've never heard or seen them before. Directed by Skyler Schrempp.