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Last Friday I went to the Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy. It sounded great! "The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a 21+ only, chilling cocktail experience dedicated to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The event takes place inside a dark speakeasy. Four of his most famous stories will be retold and reimagined by our Poe historians. Our macabre lead mixologist will transform each of those stories into a 4-part cocktail experience."
It's a traveling show. I don't know if it's a touring cast, or if the idea is essentially a franchise, and people in each city put on their own version, following the scripts and drink recipes.
As someone who went to the same one I did said on FB, "We were Wonka'd". The venue was a small ballroom that is probably usually used for wedding receptions. The decor was some props on the small stage, and a table with a picture of Poe, raven decorations that were probably from Michaels, and sheets of fancy paper for people to write messages on. The seating was white wooden folding chairs.
The performers, bless 'em, were obviously passionate about the works they were performing. I wish they had be equally passionate about things like enunciation and how fast they were speaking.
The drinks ... I'm sure they at least waved the bottles of alcohol over the mixer-laden plastic cups. I wish the drink descriptions had included the brand names of the mixers, because I'm pretty sure there was corn syrup in a few. (I was mostly able to ward off the migraine because I took Benadryl as soon as I got home.)
All in all, it was nothing like what I'd hoped for. I have learned my lesson, and will be appropriately dubious of other traveling pop-up events like this.
It's a traveling show. I don't know if it's a touring cast, or if the idea is essentially a franchise, and people in each city put on their own version, following the scripts and drink recipes.
As someone who went to the same one I did said on FB, "We were Wonka'd". The venue was a small ballroom that is probably usually used for wedding receptions. The decor was some props on the small stage, and a table with a picture of Poe, raven decorations that were probably from Michaels, and sheets of fancy paper for people to write messages on. The seating was white wooden folding chairs.
The performers, bless 'em, were obviously passionate about the works they were performing. I wish they had be equally passionate about things like enunciation and how fast they were speaking.
The drinks ... I'm sure they at least waved the bottles of alcohol over the mixer-laden plastic cups. I wish the drink descriptions had included the brand names of the mixers, because I'm pretty sure there was corn syrup in a few. (I was mostly able to ward off the migraine because I took Benadryl as soon as I got home.)
All in all, it was nothing like what I'd hoped for. I have learned my lesson, and will be appropriately dubious of other traveling pop-up events like this.
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(And you’ll remember Ray Bradbury’s “Usher II”, in which a bunch of self-appointed Guardians Of Public Morals betrayed their ignorance of the books they’d banned by failing to recognize the reference.)
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