ON THE FRINGE: The Tell Tale Heart

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ON THE FRINGE: The Tell Tale Heart

POSTED: Sunday, September 5, 2010, 1:03 PM

Filed Under: Arts | On the Fringe Theater

Every night, we're hitting the Live Arts/Fringe fest like a pack of culture-hungry wolves. Every morning, we're howling about it at citypaper.net/fringe. Every afternoon on Critical Mass (pretty much), we're rounding up the previous night's reviews.

photo by Domenick Scudera

John Zak in The Tell-Tale Heart

WE SAW IT YESTERDAY >> The Tell-Tale Heart

What's so Fringe? Nevermore Theater's production of The Tell-Tale Heart is Poe's classic, as it's meant to be done. The marvelous John Zak is by turns empathetic and twitchy as he relates the murderous chain of events that led him to stand before us, straitjacketed and unnerved, in just enough light to suggest the gravity of what he's done. Like any good psychopath, he's charming at first — despite that gleam in his eye — making the horror pay off when he takes his leave and you're left alone with your own guilty conscience. —MJ Fine

WE ALSO SAW >> Cankerblossom >> Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive! >> Freedom Club >> Takes >> Goose Feathers: Nursery Rhymes for Kids Over 18! >> Sanctuary >> Tales >> Wawapalooza 4: Damaged Goods >> First Love by Samuel Beckett >> Hello from the Children of Planet Earth >> Dead Air: The Final Broadcast of the Zombie Apocalypse Think our reviews are so right? Or so totally wrong? Visit citypaper.net/fringe to leave a comment. But don't forget that we are wolves.

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