The Tell-Tale Heart & The Screaming Skull

A lone narrator draws us into the shadowed recesses of an obsessive mind, in this new working of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of tension and paranoia.

Drawing on other works by this celebrated writer, we are drawn into a psychological spiral of the tortured imagination.

Obsessed with the old man’s “vulture eye,” we are drawn into the meticulous planning of a murder, where the greatest enemy is the mind itself.

As tension mounts, reality and delusion blur, pulling the audience into a visceral stage experience of guilt, paranoia, and the fragile boundary between sanity and madness.

This new adaptation, specially written for Blue Orange Arts, transforms a classic tale into an intimate exploration of the darkest corners of human consciousness.