The musical play will run at the theatre from the 19th July until the 9th October 2027.
Producers M. Kilburg Reedy for MKR Entertainment Group Ltd, Martin Hummel, Rose Caiola for Caiola Productions, and Catalyst Theatre of Canada have announced that Catalyst’s acclaimed musical play Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe will play in London next summer.
Written, composed and directed by Jonathan Christenson, Nevermore delves into the life and imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. It brings together biography, fantasy, music and echoes of Poe’s own work.
One rainy night in Richmond, Virginia, Poe boards a steamship bound for New York. He will never reach his destination. Instead, the journey takes him deep into memory and imagination, through a life marked by ambition, love, loss and grief, towards the discovery that, of all the twisted tales he ever told, his darkest story was his own.
Jonathan Christenson said,“Edgar Allan Poe turned his own tortured life into some of the most macabre stories and poems ever written and it’s this intriguing relationship between his life and his work that inspired Nevermore. Blurring the lines between history, memory and imagination, Nevermore uses poetic text, expressive movement, haunting music and whimsical design to get under the skin of a man who remains an irresistible mystery. I’m thrilled that we’ll be sharing that mystery with London audiences at Charing Cross Theatre.”
The creative team includes: production design by Bretta Gerecke, choreography by Laura Krewski, sound effects design by Wade Staples, sound design by Andrew Johnson, London casting by Neil Rutherford, and orchestrations by Christenson with Matthew Skopyk. Original cast character photos are by David Cooper and Key Art is by Kurt Firla.
Casting for the production will be announced in the spring.
To find out more visit: https://charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/theatre/nevermore