Forgotten Lore Theatre

Midnight Apocrypha Tell yourself it’s not real. Midnight Apocrypha is a podcast dedicated to the revival of retro radio dramas through new productions of series... from the Golden Age of Radio. Midnight Apocrypha is brought to you by Widener University’s Lone Brick Theatre Company in partnership with Forgotten Lore Theatre. For tonight’s taste of terror, we present 1947’s Be a Good Dog, Darling written by Wyllis Cooper for the radio series, Quiet Please. Midnight Apocrypha’s production of Be a Good Dog, Darling has been directed by R.A. Reutter. Starring: Andrew Lichtenwalner as Grover Brynne Maddrey as Grace and Rebecca Gomezrueda as Elisabeth Edited by R.A. Reutter Sound effects from: soundsnap.com If you like this audio drama, please follow us on social media to like, comment and subscribe. https://www.facebook.com/lonebricktheatreco/ https://www.buzzsprout.com/1042774 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx1XD_WqKnbDsAE_GzZF3Ug Stay tuned for our next story.

Jacob Marley (Alex Ross) wears the chain he forged in life of his own free will, but the Red Death (Sascha Gruden) holds the chains . . . an all too timely caution on who we bind our loyalty to. #evermorewithforgottenlore #EdgarAllanPoe #charlesdickens #illimitabledominion

Her destiny unveiled before her, the Signal-Man reluctantly takes up the mantle of the spirit of things to come. #illimitabledominion #evermorewithforgottenlore #charlesdickens

The Red Death, trapped in her black apartment, would need an emissary to walk abroad in Dickens's world. She would choose a woman in isolation, left at the altar years earlier: a woman by the name of Miss Havisham. #evermorewithforgottenlore #charlesdickens #edgarallanpoe #illimitabledominion

Jacob Marley (Alex Ross) wears the chain he forged in life of his own free will, but the Red Death (Sascha Gruden) holds the chains . . . an all too timely caution on who we bind our loyalty to. #evermorewithforgottenlore #EdgarAllanPoe #charlesdickens #illimitabledominion

The Visitor, that spry, young spirit asks (and answers) the immortal question: where did you get that hat? #evermorewithforgottenlore #illimitabledominion #charlesdickens #punchandjudy

West Laurel Hill Cemetery and Funeral Home provided the perfect setting to bring the vision of Illimitable Dominion to life, as well as the perfect spot for William Barrow (Kirk Reichart) and Robert Buss (Tyler Palma) to look down on the squalid masses. #evermorewithforgottenlore #illimitabledominion #charlesdickens #fringearts

Under the watchful gaze of the Signal Man and the Visitor, Captain Murderer squares off against Jacob Marley in the climax of Illimitable Dominion, fulfilling the Red Death's ambition to rewrite Charles Dickens's world. #evermorewithforgottenlore #EdgarAllanPoe #charlesdickens

From her very lifeforce, the Red Death created a solitary Signal Man who could hear the voices from a time yet to come. #evermorewithforgottenlore #EdgarAllanPoe #illimitabledominion

Last night we closed our sold out run of "Illimitable Dominion" in the 2020 Fringe Festival! Eternal thanks to our co-hosts at West Laurel Hill Cemetery and Funeral Home and to our audiences for coming out to support the arts!

William Barrow's co-conspirator, Robert Buss has his own demons to hide. What punishment does this wealthy slumlord's crimes demand? Are you one of the few remaining who will find out? Only 10 tickets remain for our otherwise sold out run of Illimitable Dominion! #evermorewithforgottenlore #edgarallanpoe #charlesdickens #PhillyFringe2020 #phillyfringe #fringearts

POE'S FINAL JOURNEY - PART 5 October 1, 1849 Before daybreak, the surroundings of the Wissahickon Valley become an unfamiliar landscape. Poe has descended into the maelstrom, the dominion of the Red Death.... Poe discovers a grave which he readily unearths with his spade, hoping to find Virginia within. He instead finds a wasted, near spectral Madeline Usher who retreats from Poe with terrified recognition and vanishes into the woods. Poe glances about him, realizing that he stands amid a field of graves where there were none before. He leans into the daunting task and exhumes one casket after another, each time greeted by the inert visage of a beautiful woman, but not one is his Virginia. Physically spent, Poe casts the spade aside and crosses to the riverbank where he sits upon a rock and extracts ink, pen, and paper from his valise. He composes, It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. As Poe continues to pen the lines, a warm breeze whirls the desiccated leaves about him. Amid the dead detritus of the vortex, Annabel Lee is written into life, a semblance of beauty worthy of Poe’s lost wife. The writer, weary from his exertions, rests his head and drifts into a dreamless slumber for he is already in a world of his dreams.

What is William Barrow plotting that he runs afoul of the forces Edgar Allan Poe loosed upon Victorian London? This weekend is your last chance to discover his motivations and his fate in Illimitable Dominion. #evermorewithforgottenlore #PhillyFringe2020 #phillyfringe #fringearts #edgarallanpoe #charlesdickens

POE'S FINAL JOURNEY - PART 4 September 30, 1849 Poe departs Baltimore for Philadelphia aboard the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad. He disembarks at the Gray’s Ferry Station where his trunk has been held for him.... Taking only a small valise from the trunk, Poe travels northwest on foot through Fairmount Park, arriving at Laurel Hill Cemetery in the late afternoon where he acquires a spade from a willing sexton. Poe continues on foot to the Wissahickon Valley and winds his way to the Kelpius Cave. In the waning light of the day, he lights a lantern and inspects the interior of the small enclosure. It is empty with no sign of habitation. Poe takes the spade in one hand and his valise in the other. He travels further into the valley in the growing dark. HISTORICAL LEGEND: The Cave of Kelpius is believed to have been a place of meditation for Johannes Kelpius a scholar and mystic who helmed the Society of the Woman of the Wilderness. The society came to believe that the world would end in 1694, earning them the rather odious honor of being the first Doomsday Cult. One account claims that Kelpius traveled with a mysterious box that contained the legendary Philosopher’s Stone, long sought after by alchemists for its ability to change base metals to gold and prolong life. The same account has it that Kelpius ordered this box thrown into the Schuylkill River shortly before his death in 1708.