📅 Friday, Oct. 10-Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025
🕓 7:30-9:30 p.m.
📍 Noveltease @ Theatre Off Jackson: 409 7th Ave. S, Seattle
💰 $5.49-$62.20
Who is that tap, tap, tapping at your chamber door? It’s Noveltease Theatre, who since 2019 have combined theatrical adaptations of classical texts with contemporary striptease. Their previous works of “literary burlesque” have run the gamut from “The Canterbury Tales” and “The Odyssey” to “The Count of Monte Cristo” and a trio of Sherlock Holmes tales. Their most recent production, “The Great Gatsby,” is even up for seven Gregory Awards this season.
They’re also not one to shy away from horror, having presented Jane Austen’s Gothic satire “Northanger Abbey,” plus “A Metamodern Prometheus,” which combined Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” with the story of its creation. Their latest tears into the works of the macabre master himself, Edgar Allen Poe, and is conceived and choreographed by Scarlett Folds, directed by Jesse Belle-Jones and adapted by co-artistic director Sailor St. Claire.
“It’s Guillermo Del Toro meets Edgar Allen Poe and creates a sensual nightmare,” company member Folds told The Ticket. “With the spooky season on the horizon, we are getting Seattleites ready for all the spine-chilling vibes.” Featuring set design from Bella Rivera and costumes by Lady Drew Blood, it adds up to “titillating and exhilarating tintinnabulations.”
The story, which finds a narrator tormented by the death of a loved one and spurred into madness by a conspiracy of ravens, covers more than six Poe stories sure to push you over the edge and into the abyss.
“If you’re a fan of Poe’s work,” Folds concluded, “then audience members are in for a real treat, being able to see his poetry and short stories become a fully embodied storyline and concept.”
