The Black Cat and Other Plays Adapted from Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

by Lance Tait

Overview

Seven exciting new theatrical adaptations of seven short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Some of the famous stories and some of the lesser known works. These one-act plays are most often for a cast of four actors: two women, two men. This new book is a sequel to Tait's first book of Poe adaptations (the first book contains ten other adaptations of ten other E. A. Poe stories).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149566365
Publisher:	Theatre Metropole Books
Publication date:	09/29/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	741,354
File size:	82 KB

About the Author

Check out the free-wheeling, adventurous works by American playwright Lance Tait. Tait is the author of more than forty stage plays (one-act plays and full-length plays), as well as two collections of comedy sketches. His plays have been performed or have received public readings in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, Paris, the United Kingdom, the American Repertory Theatre and Harvard University. In 2002 Tait founded the theater company, Theatre Metropole, in Paris. T.M.'s productions and readings have consistently been well-received. Tait is also known as a writer of screenplays and producer/director/writer of short films. His first short films (22 in all) were first discovered by Sony Pictures' website, Crackle.com, and he partnered with that website for two years.
"Tait is a playwright with ideas and intellect and challenges and excites an audience" - Yvonne Shafer, author of "Performing O'Neill."