Startling!
A WEIRD ANTHOLOGY
Directed by Brenna Geffers
@ Crown & Anchor · 247 Commercial Steet
Every month Weird Tales printed a full-page ad defining what they were about. The headlines varied, but the copy was more or less the same:
“NOWHERE except in the pages of WEIRD TALES can you find such superb stories of the bizarre, the grotesque and the terrible—fascinating tales that grip the imagination and send shivers of apprehension up the spine—tales that take one from the humdrum, matter-of-fact world into a deathless realm of fancy…. In addition to creepy mystery stories, ghost-tales, witchcraft, vampires and strange monsters, this magazine also prints the cream of the weird-scientific fiction that is written today—tales of the spaces between the worlds, surgical stories, and stories that look into the future with the eye of prophecy.”
Die-Cast ensemble from Philadelphia, with the help of Festival artists, will present an onstage adaptation of a WEIRD TALES anthology, curated and directed by Brenna Geffers, putting Tennessee Williams Sci-Fi Fantasy into context.
A highlight of the Festival’s Weird Anthology is an adaptation of Paul Ibell’s poem, “Taking Tennessee to the Coast” in which a group of Williams admirers follow up on Williams’ instructions for what he wanted done with his body after he died. The Festival adaptation of Ibell’s poem, with live music and dance, is the creation of Marios Mettis.