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'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe adapted Gerald P. Murphy - additional information.


'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe adapted Gerald P. Murphy
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Period and Geography
Location: USA. Time Period: 19th Century
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 1
Setting: Living Room
Set Requirements: Furniture Only
The script includes characters in the following age range(s):
Unspecified ages
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Swearing rate: less than 1 known rude word per thousand.
We have identified the following types of language in the text:
Mild swearwords
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Style:
Stage adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short (Gothic Horror) story. Single figurative set.
Synopsis:
Lucas takes a homeless man into his home. Convinced the homeless man posesses 'the evil eye', Lucas waits until the dead of night and murders him. Driven mad by guilt and the memory of the evil eye, Lucas is haunted by the homeless man's heart, beating under the floorboards...

 
 

 
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