Astounding!
The Eye That Saw Death
Directed by Jennifer Restak
Gifford House, 9 Carvier St
A troubled patient with a transplanted eye takes on the tormented vision of a murderer (from whom the eye was removed after execution). As a teenager in the late 1920’s, Tennessee Williams wrote this ghoulish tale in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe, probably hoping to sell the story to a pulp magazine. It wasn’t published until 2015. The Festival’s unsettling adaptation is the brainchild of Jennifer Restak and Alex Zavistovich, Artistic Director of the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre of Baltimore.