Talking out loud about the stuff that won’t leave us alone.

This week writer, actor, and Shipwrecked Comedy co-founder Sean Persaud joins us to talk about adapting Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, the beloved 2016 web series, into a full stage musical premiering this summer at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Los Angeles.

What starts as a conversation about adaptation turns into something much bigger. We get into the strange experience of revisiting work that no longer belongs entirely to you, the pressure of adapting something people already have an emotional relationship with, and the challenge of translating a deeply visual piece of storytelling into the more suggestive language of theatre.

Sean talks about what changes when you move from screen to stage, how creative limitations can actually sharpen storytelling, and why adaptation is less about recreating something exactly and more about preserving the feeling people had when they first experienced it.

We also talk about:
• Adapting beloved cult material
• Why theatre and film tell stories differently
• Suggestion vs realism in storytelling
• How constraints shape creativity
• Making weird art with your friends

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