Chicago Tribune: Personal grief often serves as grist for the horror writer's literary mill. Consider Anne Rice, who created Claudia, the undead child companion to Lestat and Louis in "Interview with the Vampire," after the tragic death of her own daughter from leukemia. Edgar Allan Poe's litany of loss spawned many of his finest works, as David Rice's popular "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story" at First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook has demonstrated in several past Halloween incarnations.
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The title of this article is a misleading premise but an amazing idea to consider. While the article describes an interesting show that seems like a great production of dramatic science fiction, it does not address the psychological motives described in it's title. Because of the intriguing nature of this title on myself, I would like to focus my comment of the desire of an audience to see monsters. This desire rests of the dramatic nature of theatre goers and their infatuation with the element beyond their daily lives. Though many a show has succeeded that has been based in everyday culture, the large number of grossing broadway shows has some element that takes the audience out of their daily life and into a new universe. By achieving this element of transcendental theatre, show with vampires and magic and storybook tales have received inept success in the realm of franchised theatre.
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