A Pandemonium of Poe – Don’t Go Into The Cellar! Theatre Company

Jonathan Goodwin’s Don’t Go Into The Cellar! Theatre Company is returning to The Albert Hall this August!

‘A Pandemonium of Poe’

by Jonathan Goodwin

A show in which the audience gets to choose which Edgar Allan Poe tales are performed!

The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and many more! Edgar Allan Poe is played by award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin.

No two performances will ever be the same. Full-blooded gothic melodrama brought to life by Jonathan Goodwin in a show scripted by himself, and directed by Gary Archer.

About Don’t Go Into The Cellar!

Formed in 2010, Don’t Go Into The Cellar! are the UK’s leading performers of theatrical Victoriana with a macabre twist, based in the West Midlands—a region tied to major Victorian and Edwardian genre writers, including Arthur Conan Doyle, who began writing while practising medicine in Birmingham, and Sax Rohmer, creator of Fu Manchu, who was born there. Washington Irving wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow during his time in the city, and Charles Dickens frequently performed at Birmingham Town Hall, giving the first public reading of A Christmas Carol there in 1853. Humourist Jerome K. Jerome, born in nearby Walsall, also shared Dickens’s flair for the macabre when the mood struck, and the spirits of all these nineteenth‑century greats linger in the company’s stage work.

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About Jonathan Goodwin

Jonathan Goodwin has been enthralled by the Victorian and Edwardian eras since childhood, devouring Conan Doyle, Stoker, Stevenson and M. R. James, and discovering The Hound of the Baskervilles at around six. He grew up watching classic Sherlock Holmes films, Lugosi and Karloff horrors and early Hammer productions, never imagining he’d one day follow those performers onto the stage; as a teenager he even exchanged letters with Peter Cushing, whose Holmes—along with Basil Rathbone’s and later Jeremy Brett’s—became a lasting favourite. A voracious reader with shelves full of nineteenth‑century crime and popular fiction, he writes scripts with a free‑ranging imagination, believing that artistic licence is essential when crafting entertainment, however dark the subject.