Brothers David and Jeremy Wilhelm have teamed up with Thaddeus Phillips and several others to construct this 90 minute work of art. While it ends up exactly where you know it will, the journey is a wild, tortured, and esoteric ride. The music in the show was created by the talented brothers Wilhelm and the show exquisitely directed by Mr. Phillips.
Alessandra L. Larson (Virginia Poe) and Ean Sheehy (Edgar Allen Poe) navigate the poetic script with graceful acrobatics, magical dance, and tortured personas. Jeremy breaks the 4th wall as a narrator of sorts (think explainer-in-chief) while the Poes are completely immersed in their characters and David adeptly tickles various ivories on a few different pianos on the stage. Even the musical accompaniment is ingenious and artistic at times, the actors ingeniously playing instruments.Red-Eye is a spectacularly creative - and yes strange - artistic expression of the particular story of a specific point in the life of a talented and tortured man. Haunting and poetic, it will leave you feeling enriched, bewildered, and satiated all at the same time.