Usher
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Usher - Story Synopsis
It's a dark and stormy night when the school bus breaks down. A bunch of teens
on a field trip are stranded in the spooky and haunted House Of Usher.
This is a comic tribute to the collected works of the great Edgar Allan Poe. Taking
a grand mix of his tales, poems, short stories, characters, themes and ideas,
we've concocted this original piece with countless winks, nudges and nods to the
Master Of Horror.
Forced to spend the night in the creepy mansion, this mixed bag of nutty teens
figure out they are not alone here. The spirits of all the Usher Ancestors are also
trapped inside this sprawling house. The Usher line is cursed, doomed to stay in
this house forever, unable to move on to the afterlife, until someone can help the
last surviving Usher find the will to truly live life.
Sounds simple enough, except a few of the Old Ushers are afraid they may not be
heaven bound if the curse is broken and set out to foil the plans of ghosts and
mortals alike.
Usher is a wild and whacky romp, but it also deals with some weighty issues that
haunt the nightmares of most teens. Isolation, loneliness, suicide, peer pressure
and the angst of living through teen-hood.
It is an exploration of the joys of living a great life, wrapped up in laughs, dead
bodies, farce and slapstick. All which lead to the fall of the house of Usher.
Usher is an original play written by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. It is part of our
Teen Program and premiered in the summer of 2006 at The Hub Theater in
North Hollywood and the Francis Wilson Playhouse in Clearwater Florida.
