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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.
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.
Teen Program and premiered in the summer of 2006 at The Hub Theater in
North Hollywood and the Francis Wilson Playhouse in Clearwater Florida.
