Georgia Tech, Office of the Arts

On September 27, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe set out on a lecture tour from Virginia to New York. Days later a train conductor saw Poe in Havre de Grace, Maryland, wearing a stranger's clothing and heading south to Baltimore where he died on October 7. Innovative stage director Thaddeus Phillips teams up with Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create an action-opera that follows Poe's last days. This piece comments on the nature of being an artist in America and casts Poe in a new light by exploring his writings on the gold rush, fools, furniture, and the universe.