Celebrating the 10th deathiversary and woeful return of Eldritch Theatre’s dreadfully dour Kindergoth Masterpiece. Welcome back to the Grim Woodland of Weir, where the terrifying tales of Edgar Allen Poe are performed in petrifying perpetuity by twisted little toys that bear a striking, yet non-copyright infringing, resemblance to a certain “stuffy old bear” and his forest- dwelling companions.

Narrated by two lost souls, Edgar (Eric Woolfe) and Allan (Mairi Babb), and performed by a creepy cabal of table top puppets, aided with some truly horrifying parlour magic, these chilling fables are sure to send audiences into paroxysms of despair, madness and mirth. Dedicated to the dead child in all of us.

THE HOUSE AT POE CORNER

Mutterings by Michael O’Brien & Eric Woolfe with Grim Warbles by Cathy Nosaty Gloomy Sights by Melanie McNeill

Performed by Morbid Mairi Babb & Eerie Eric Woolfe Weird Woodland Management by Annasofie Jakobsen Produced by Adrianna Prosser

Associate Producer Emma Mackenzie Hillier

April 11th - 21st, 2024 7:00PM Doors/7:30 Showtime 3:00PM Doors/3:30 Showtime

$20 Tuesdays

$30 Advance/$40 Door/PWYC Sundays $25 Eldritch Members

at their haunted home Red Sandcastle Theatre 922 Queen St E, Toronto

MASKED VENUE HEPA FILTERED THEATRE Running time 90 mins, no intermission

Reserve your seat at: eldritchtheatre.ca as part of Eldritch Theatre’s 2023/24 Season

About Eldritch Theatre:

Resident Theatre Company at Red Sandcastle Theatre

The only theatre company in the world to bring you horror, puppets, and magic in one astounding theatrical performance, we make plays that go bump in the night. Eldritch Theatre has won 4 Dora Mavor Awards, and been nominated 25 times. Eldritch also offers youth programming such as puppetry workshops and Dungeons And Dragon storytelling camps for weirdos both young and old.

Eldritch Theatre has been creating plays that go bump in the night for over 20 years, and has staged several productions and programs at the Red Sandcastle. It has been the home to Dora Mavor award winning and nominated shows such as Requiem for a Gumshoe (Dora Nominee 2022), Two Weird Tales, Space Opera Zero! (Dora Winner 2018), The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (twice Dora nominated 2017), Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show (three times Dora nominated). eldritchtheatre.ca

Red Sandcastle Theatre:

An indie storefront theatre, where Anything is Possible!

Eldritch Theatre’s Red Sandcastle, at 922 Queen Street East, is an artistic hub where actors, indie theatre companies, magicians, puppeteers, sketch comics, and artists of all kinds can mount shows, rehearse projects, and workshop new creations!

Toronto’s longest operating storefront theatre is also the artistic home of Eldritch Theatre, a company specialising in works of the ghoulish, creepy and uncanny. Eldritch’s administrative team, Adrianna Prosser (General Manager) and Eric Woolfe (Managing Director), act as Caretakers of the Castle, facilitating rentals for artists seeking to use the space for their own creative endeavours. Redsandcastletheatre.com.

Photo: Mairi Babb and Eric Woolfe in The House at Poe Corner. © 2023 Adrianna Prosser.