The Purloined Letter Part 2
for PortFringe - Maine's Fringe Festival Pop Up Poe!
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Written and Directed by Joanna Clarke and Sarah Kennedy
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Costume and Prop Design by Sarah Kennedy
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CAST
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Basil : Tom Haushalter
Dawson : Hannah Shepherd
Prefect / Basil Body Double : Genevieve Joy Breitbach
Minister : Justine Wiesinger
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Premiered April 5th at Oxbow Blending & Bottling, Portland ME! ​
All inspired by the father of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. ​
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What is PortFringe POP-UP? This annual fundraising event for PortFringe is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind, community experience in which local performance artists, chosen by random lottery, are each assigned one chapter of a classic work and tasked with presenting it in just 5 minutes. Planned and rehearsed with no coordination with the other artists.


The 2025 lineup of Maine performance artists for
Pop Up Poe included:
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Allen Adams (Bangor)
Brass Handles Productions (South Portland)
The Content Collective (Portland)
Marie Elizabeth (Portland)
Fox Bramble (Portland)
Sabrina Gallego (Portland)
GenZ (Portland)
Mad Horse Adjacent (South Portland)
Out There Theater Company (Portland)
Pine State Pitches (Portland)
Suze Quackenbush (Biddeford)
Roundtable Theatre Co.Arwyn Sherman (Bath)
Tandem Theatre Collective (Portland)