Nevermore | Theatre review

The Barbican, LondonIf Edgar Allan Poe had had a blissfully happy childhood would he have become the writer of creepy stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart or The Raven, which this gothic hallucination of a show has found inspiration for its title? Probably not, but nothing is certain (least of all biography) in this macabre and compelling operetta from Canada's Catalyst Theatre that operates at the boundaries of fact and fiction, reality and nightmare, and offers a skewed perspective on a life be...

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