Fantastic Fest 2010 is starting to wind down, but for the next four nights, the festival presents an event that makes a unique connection between literature, theater, and the festival's special brand of weird, hard-to-find entertainment. Nevermore... An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe is a one-man show based on the life of the godfather of the macabre. In addition to its fest-appropriate subject matter, its creators are the men behind the Lovecraftian 80s horror Re-Animator. Director Stuart Gordon and writer Dennis Paoli collaborated on that film, in which a medical student brings his professor back to life, and they're going back to their Chicago theater roots with this show, which is based on historical accounts and Poe's writing and letters. Re-Animator star Jeffrey Combs plays Poe, but Trekkies will recognize him from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise, among many other roles. The show ran in Los Angeles for months, and has been making the festival rounds. It's not often one gets the chance to see a touring collaboration this unique in an intimate setting—not to mention the rarity of seeing a theater piece at the Alamo. Nevermore runs Wednesday at 6:15 and Thursday through Saturday at 7 pm. at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.
Jeffrey Combs is Edgar Allan Poe
