TALES FROM THE GRAVE Premieres

Damian Bowerman and Jon Farris

A Portable Theatre’s production of Tales from the Grave, a live radio drama based on classic ghost stories created and directed by Geoffrey Nelson, opened last night in the Chappelear Drama Center at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware. Performed as a part of OWU’s annual Performing Arts Series, Tales featured Equity actors Damian Bowerman, Jon Farris, Jonathan Putnam and Ed Vaughan.

Adapted from Charles Dickens’s “The Signalman,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body Snatcher,” Tales also includes a satirical excerpt of the popular radio (and later TV) program Gunsmoke, live sound effects created by the actors, and humorous commercials.

APT will offer additional performances of Tales from the Grave next October during Halloween season and the show will be available for tour bookings.