The third year Actor-Musician students at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, will be performing a new adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s gothic horror story The Fall of the House of Usher, as their new writing season this June. The story centres around Roderick Usher and his frail sister Madeline, both suffering from a wasting illness that leaves them with an over-sensitivity to all things, especially sound. The arrival of an old friend triggers a sequence of events that will ultimately lead to their destruction…or is it their redemption? With a new purpose-written horror-film-style score for actor-musicians, this site-specific production is to be performed at the atmospheric location of The Bargehouse on London’s Southbank, and is directed by acclaimed director Paul Hart, whose credits include an apprenticeship with Michael Grandage at the Donmar Warehouse, and several seasons working with award-winning Shakespeare company Propeller.
