Yonder Window Theatre Company and The Theater at the 14th Street Y are excited to present the world premiere of Fengar Gael’s The House on Poe Street.

Gothic ghosts encounter modern monstrosities when twin sisters inherit the house where Poe is reputed to have composed The Raven. In The House on Poe Street, a wealthy estate lawyer learns to appreciate Poe’s macabre spirit while questioning his own presumptions of wealth, gender parity and the power of poetry to conjure visions of a spectral afterlife.

Run Time: 85 minutes, no intermission
Actor Equity Approved Showcase

The House on Poe Street, playing now at the 14th Street Y, strives to create humor out of pathos. It’s a tricky piece of work, living somewhere between black and romantic comedy. The challenge is intriguing, attempting to bring humor to a dark subject. The strength of the play lies in the biological science (somewhere between eugenics and transgender hormone therapy) that it begins to examine and to argue. At the play’s opening we find the handsome, wealthy Mendel Steingold (played with charm by Gregory Jensen) speaking to us as if we are part of his firm. He’s a real estate lawyer with two clients, who we learn are twins. The twins, Argonne and Fluorine Seaborg (played with aplomb by Olivia Nice and Eliza Shea) have inherited the Edgar Allan Poe house from their mother and they wish to turn it into a museum. Their mother (who we come to learn is haunting Poe House) has changed their gender at birth from boys to girls to begin experimenting with hormones to make the world a safer place. The ghost-mother’s ultimate goal? To create a drink that might be used against extremely macho world leaders, creating compassion in them, instead of evil. Mendel has a girlfriend, Samaria Silverman …Read more