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An award-winning Off-Broadway show is coming to Jasper.
Edgar Allan, a two-person dark musical comedy, is a six-time Best of Fest winner, was held over at the 2015 Edmonton Fringe, and has played Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse.
It will be performed at Habitat For The Arts later this month.
鈥淲e have been trying for several years to sign some Fringe shows and this is our first foray into it,鈥� said Marianna Garrah, director at Habitat.
鈥淚 saw something about Edgar Allan and went 鈥極h my God, they鈥檙e coming to Edmonton, so close, let鈥檚 see if we can connect,鈥� and they were more than happy to come to Jasper.鈥�
Edgar Allan follows a pre-adolescent Edgar Allan Poe in his first year at English Boarding School, as he seeks to gain academic ascendancy over the student body.
The play is a dark, comedic riff on the obsessions, the mania, and the insanity that haunted the life and work of America's first professional writer.
It was created and is performed by American Gothic-inspired The Coldharts, Brooklyn-based actors Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan.
Hartman said: 鈥淲e are psyched to come to Jasper.
鈥淲e love it there and it鈥檚 our dream to take our work to every corner of this beautiful planet.鈥�
Edgar Allan premiered at the 2013 Twin Cities Horror Festival and has toured across North America with more than 100 performances.
It will be performed twice at Habitat, on August 31 and September 1 at 7 p.m.
Garrah said: 鈥淓xpect humour, music, live theatre. We are going to see something extreme.鈥�
Garrah said she hopes this is the first of many Fringe shows to come to Jasper.
鈥淩ight now Edmonton is packed with this kind of stuff and we have wanted to do this for a long time,鈥� she said.
鈥淲e are pretty happy to see it come to life here.鈥�
鈥淢aybe next year we could have three instead of one, then maybe four.鈥�
Tickets for Edgar Allan cost $20 and are available at Tekarra Color.
