The Fall of the House of Usher (full length)
Produced by The Invisible Theatre in NYC
An adaptation of Poe's mysterious and fantastic short story -- mad, reclusive Roderick Usher, obsessed with this twin sister Madeline, lures his oldest friend, William, to visit him in his haunted mansion (played by four dancers). William falls in love with Madeline and attempts to free both brother and sister from their tortuous bond.
An adaptation of Poe's mysterious and fantastic short story -- mad, reclusive Roderick Usher, obsessed with this twin sister Madeline, lures his oldest friend, William, to visit him in his haunted mansion (played by four dancers). William falls in love with Madeline and attempts to free both brother and sister from their tortuous bond.
"The Invisible Theatre Company’s adaptation of the classic tale is strikingly fresh, thanks to playwright Linda Manning’s bold vision.... Manning had a dynamic presence .... Deftly handling the madness that lies at the heart of Poe’s tale, Manning oscillated from a petulant little girl, to a proper young lady, to a disturbing sexual force.... The amount of humor that Manning has incorporated into the script, without compromising its horror, is one of its greatest accomplishments.”
The Off-Off-Broadway Review
New York, NY
"Poe would have been proud of Ms. Manning’s adaptation.”
Town & Village
New York, NY
"The Invisible Theatre of New York has collaborated with Providence's Groundwerx Dance Theatre in an attempt to physicalize Poe's tale. Their new version -- visually and musically exciting, sometimes incisive -- is a rhapsodic deconstruction. It is almost always intriguing.... Manning goes well beyond the usual adaptation ... her writing is strong and provocative…. At a dinner party scene, Manning herself (she plays Madeline with a variety of guises, all strong) does a wonderful takeoff on one of Tennessee Williams's best women, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. The physical production is delicious, funny, pointed and well-performed. The four Groundwerx dancers range from wittily obsequious servants to sharp-faced furies, apparently representing the psychological and physical storms in this production. Their continued shadowy presence is a reminder that there are things we know and things we don't know going on inside and around us all the time. . . . that it is also a work of imagination, romance and thought brought to a physical culmination is undeniable.”
The Providence Journal
Providence, RI
The Off-Off-Broadway Review
New York, NY
"Poe would have been proud of Ms. Manning’s adaptation.”
Town & Village
New York, NY
"The Invisible Theatre of New York has collaborated with Providence's Groundwerx Dance Theatre in an attempt to physicalize Poe's tale. Their new version -- visually and musically exciting, sometimes incisive -- is a rhapsodic deconstruction. It is almost always intriguing.... Manning goes well beyond the usual adaptation ... her writing is strong and provocative…. At a dinner party scene, Manning herself (she plays Madeline with a variety of guises, all strong) does a wonderful takeoff on one of Tennessee Williams's best women, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. The physical production is delicious, funny, pointed and well-performed. The four Groundwerx dancers range from wittily obsequious servants to sharp-faced furies, apparently representing the psychological and physical storms in this production. Their continued shadowy presence is a reminder that there are things we know and things we don't know going on inside and around us all the time. . . . that it is also a work of imagination, romance and thought brought to a physical culmination is undeniable.”
The Providence Journal
Providence, RI
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