Evermore, Edgar

A heartbeat. A raven. A thunderstorm.

Between worlds of memory and madness, Evermore, Edgar is a puppetry piece that tells the story of poet Edgar Allan Poe, haunted by the perverse tales of his own creations. 

Director's note: This piece was particularly intriguing for me in the way that it uses bold fantastical images to grapple with certain pains of Edgar's human experience. As lines blur between the real and the imaginary, we come to see a retelling of Poe's tales that questions the man behind the words. One of the ways in which we embodied and navigated the exploration of the artist-creation relationship was through building the puppets ourselves- allowing each actor and puppeteer to have agency in the design, mechanism and operation of the puppets. It was important to us that in the creation of this production we used almost entirely repurposed, found or borrowed materials to create our puppets, sets, and costumes. - Mariia Masha Bashmakova

Cast and Production Team

Edgar: Lila Ciesielski

Reynolds: Freddy Van Camp

Noname & Roderick (operator): Jennifer Jack

Noname & Zachary (operator): Vanessa Lazare

Playwright: Lila Ciesielski

Director, Designer: Mariia Masha Bashmakova

Dramaturg, Stage Manager: Camille Fecteau

Designer: Jennifer Jack

Assistant Stage Manager: Georgia Holland

A special thank you to Emme Geryk, original puppeteer for Noname & Zachary