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Alex Harvey, The Willows

  • February 22, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Stonykill Coffee & Records

    36 Main Street
    Chatham, New York 12037
Ticket Price $25.00 Buy Tickets
Description

A hallucination in sound and voice, Alex Harvey’s adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows exploits a tension between dream-time and clock-time through Victoria Finney’s lamplit one-woman recitation. 

Drawing on Blackwood’s entanglement with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, occult modernism and early 20th-century mystical experimentation, Harvey and Finney’s interpretation treats the text not merely as fiction but as an incantation— a deliberate shaping of inner experience through rhythm, cadence, breath and a phantasmic sound design. Blackwood and his esoteric contemporaries believed that words, spoken in the right order, could open the mind, expand perception, even shift reality. This adaptation approaches the story in exactly that way.

What emerges is both intimate and mythic—a fire-lit encounter with a text that links 19th-century gothic nature writing to the birth of 20th-century psychological horror.

Date & Time

Sun, Feb 22, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Venue Details

Stonykill Coffee & Records

36 Main Street
Chatham, New York 12037 Stonykill Coffee & Records
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