Chatterton spreads out in three dimensions, immersing its mobile audiences in the haunting spaces of Trinity Cathedral Pittsburgh.
Chatterton’s plot takes inspiration from historical character Thomas Chatterton, the Romantic era’s most famous suicide, an 18th century poet who took his young life and was immortalized 100 years later by a very famous painting. Modeling for that painting was Victorian poet George Meredith, whose own dramatic life also features in Ackroyd’s story. And in the present, poet Charles Wychwood goes on a hunt to solve mysterious puzzles from the past – is what we believe about Thomas Chatterton truth or fiction?
Chatterton offers a trifecta of poets in three centuries, colorful London with Dickensian characters bristling with humor, and deep debates on what is real and what is fake in the intertwining worlds of art and commerce?
SHOWTIMES
September 14 – October 7, 2018
Trinity Cathedral Pittsburgh
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Meet the Cast
Tony Bingham
Ken Bolden
Martin L. Giles
Tim McGeever
Jeff Monahan
Gayle Pazerski
Helena Ruoti
Alan Stanford
Tammy Tsai
Jonathan D. Visser
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