The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft & The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
When selecting material for productions in the Newman Wine Vaults, you would be hard pressed to find better stories than The Cask of Amontillado and The Rats in the Walls.
Both concern themselves with nefarious deeds done deep in the earth, both use a narrator who takes the audience with them in their literal and psychological descents into the depths, and both follow in a tradition of American horror whose echoes are still heard today in writers the world over. Poe's dark imagination laid the groundwork, and Lovecraft infused the genre with new fears of humanity's overall insignificance. Both came to widespread recognition as writers only after their deaths, but both left behind a wide canon of work that continues to chill and inspire.
Presented in association with the Newfoundland Historic Trust
Players
The Rats in the Walls
Adapted and Performed by Dave Walsh
The Cask of Amontillado
Adapted by Dale Jarvis
Performed by Dave Walsh and Chris Hibbs
Candlelight performance
Sundays and Mondays from July 6-August 18, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
Newman Wine Vaults, Water Street
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