After many comic incidents that involve Thekla’s banishment for betraying Helen, palace intrigue and competing love interests between the king and Noey, and Menelaos’s capture and imprisonment, affairs change for the better (at least for those from Sparta). With the assistance of a poet and a slave girl Bia, Helen, Menelaos, and their daughter Hermione (who left home in search of her parents and who has also turned up in Egypt) are safely reunited. They will be able to leave on a ship for their Greek home (Sparta).

Time, Setting and Costumes: Egypt, during the time of the Trojan War; large interior rooms of the King of Egypt’s palace; the Hollywood film, ‘Solomon and Sheba’ (1959) directed by King Vidor, has costumes that would fit ‘Helen’--no kidding.

Actors/Singers:16 is the minimum number suggested; 6 principle roles, females followed by males: Helen, Thekla, Noey, Hermione; the King, Menelaos; 2 Minor roles: Bia (female); a Poet (male); Mens’ Chorus (4); Full Chorus (4 females added to the already 4 males in the Men’s Chorus).

Technical remarks concerning the music demo CD: the digital recordings were made in the GarageBand2 and 3 format and mixed (a rough mix) to standard digital uncompressed AIFF format; all the songs and instruments are key-transposable (C major, D major, etc.); all the songs are transferable to other industry standard recording software; any part or whole of the present audio easy interfaces with Logic Pro, SMPTE code, film, etc.; paper notation of music, vocals: Finale software (an industry standard) was used to notate words and song melodies; the present orchestrations to the songs are easily notated by using LogicPro software.

A combination of theatrical techniques from world theater are used in plays adapted and inspired by Poe. Tait remarks, "Certainly my aim in selecting many lesser-known Poe stories to adapt is founded upon my desire to enlighten the world about the profundity and exquisite scope of Poe... my desire is to honor Edgar Allan Poe, and in these times where the arts and humanities are marginalized and even attacked by many constituents in the moneyed elite, to hold up Art as a wondrous endeavor to be indulged."

Enfield Books has recently published Tait's plays inspired by ten contrasting stories taken from Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Imp of the Perverse," "Hop-Frog," "The Oval Portrait," "The Power of Words," "The Man of the Crowd," "Landor's Cottage," "The Spectacles," "The Man That Was Used Up," and "Some Words with a Mummy." The title of the book is The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Plays Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Tait remarks, "To confine myself to a narrow set of theatrical conventions, as one does, for example, when writing a naturalistic play, would have been the death of this project. When adapting Poe for the stage I did my best to free myself of many preconceived notions of what the final result might be. I tried to remain open to a wide range of performance modes (verse, song, narrative, dialogue, dance). I focused on the dramatic action in the short stories and began to play. With a play such as 'The Oval Portrait,' it is obvious that I have used the original story as a point of departure for a contemporary one-act play that does not conform to the original but rather inhabits some sort of parallel world to it. Nevertheless, in my work on the Poe plays I have always kept my focus on the spirit and the effect of each of Poe's stories. So, spirit and effect have been played with in addition to dramatic action. Theater is a live art and it is necessary to engage the contemporary audience. Convergence with Poe is possible because of his universality, his depth and his genius for instructing the emotions and inventing new form. In 2005, I was only too happy to start again writing more plays based on Poe stories; the work continues in 2007." 

On October 31, 2005, Theatre Metropole presented readings of four more plays based on Edgar Allan Poe stories. The event took place at Carr’s Restaurant, 1, rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, 1st arrondissement. The plays were written and directed by Lance Tait; each calls for a cast of four actors. The new pieces are: "Memories of August Bedloe" (based on “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”), "The Lovers" (based on “The Assignation”), "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (based on the story of the same name) and "A Predicament" (inspired by the story of the same name). January 2006 saw the first reading of "The Black Cat."