Madness & Melancholy: An Interview with Baltimore’s John Kelso on Playing Edgar Allan Poe
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” –Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordyn Pym.
When one twists darkened words of macabre and melancholy through the mind and round the tongue, one finds perhaps phantom shades of Baltimore’s beloved Edgar Allan Poe coming to light. Returning to the stage after two years’ hiatus, Do Or Die Productions is reviving their renowned production of Poe’s Last Stanza,