Theatre Review: 'The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful' at Everyman Theatre
The term "penny dreadful" describes cheap publications, popular in Victorian England, that were often sold for a penny and featured lurid stories about crime, adventure, or the supernatural. (Think the National Enquirer or Britain's Daily Mirror.) Charles Ludlam's best known work, the 1984 "The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful," has some of those […]
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