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Margaret Atwood to showcase gothic puppet show for Mary Beard

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 | 3:01 PM

Author will present her unique take on an Edgar Allen Poe tale on Beard’s BBC Two arts show

Margaret Atwood will show how she has gone from handmaids’ tales to handmade tales when she unveils her latest project: a puppet show version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.

The novelist is to be a guest on Mary Beard’s BBC Two arts show Front Row Late, hosted in lockdown from the study in Beard’s house. Atwood’s contribution is what Beard calls a “very surprising” version of Poe’s horror story: a puppet show choreographed by the author and her sister Ruth, with all the characters made from household objects.

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