The Cask Of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
Living Reading Performance by Thom Bray
THIS IS AN EXCERPT ONLY. The complete recording is available HERE.
Wordplay Audio Theatre
presents
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
by Edgar Allan Poe
Performed by
THOM BRAY
Recorded LIVE, without CUTS or EDITS on February 26, 2005
Portland, OR
Performance Copyright 2005 by Wordplay Repertory Theatre
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ABOUT WORDPLAY
Wordplay Audio Theatre produces, dynamic, exciting living performances of classic short fiction stories. Not your run of the mill audiobooks, Wordplay Audio Theatre’s recordings are performance pieces; the perfect meeting of literature and theatre, a “Marriage of Sound and Sense ™ “!
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Wordplay Audio Theatre uses professional actors to record short stories, but while most audio book companies instruct their readers to give a neutral read we urge our actors to create a performance! We are seeking a theatrical experience for our listeners, an interpretation of the story that moves us emotionally. To this end, we rehearse, and rehearse, and rehearse some more, but we record our stories “live”, without making any audio cuts or other edits, giving you a spontaneous, “living theatre” experience. Anything can happen in a Wordplay dynamic living reading; we try our best to get as close as we can to the experience of a live, theatrical performance!
ABOUT THIS FILE
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Thanks for making this available online. I used it to help my students read the story. It really helps with the unfamiliar language, vocabulary.
[...] Tuesday- Read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.” If you are out on Tuesday, follow the following link to a podcast audio of the story. When you get to the site, click on “Play in Popup” and hit the play button: http://wordplaytheatre.com/audio2/?p=3 [...]
You recording of the “Cask Of Amontillado” is so cool. It gives the feeling that you are actually experiencing it. And the voices are just perfect for hte characters.
Thank you! My students struggled through reading this story and will do much better hearing it aloud!
Hello, Mr. Bray. I teach academically gifted kids in Louisiana. We are studying Poe and I found your site quite by accident this morning as I was preparing to teach “Cask of Amontillado.” My kids are quite jaded and hard to please when it comes to reading along with an audio version of the literature we cover. I decided to have them do it with this story anyway (although I did not preview the audio version b/c I was out of time) , but anticipated their typical remarks at its conclusion. To my great surprise and pleasure, they (and I) LOVED your presentation. They said it really helped them understand and enjoy the story. We will definitely be using your podcasts again. Thank you for a job extraordinarily well done.
As an educator myself, I’m gratified that this was of use to students!