Poe Show is returning to Bewleys Café Theatre on 20 October for the Halloween season having played earlier this year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and Gothic master of mysterious and macabre tales. It features some of Poes most terrifying, dark tales and poems with a backdrop of live music…no doubt eery, spooky music. If you enjoy Poes work, storytelling or ghost stories I think this will be a great event to go to, especially at this time of the year.
Poe Show will be performed for two weeks from Tuesday 20 Oct (preview Mon 19th) with the final performance, fittingly, on Halloween. Shows are every day at 1.10pm (doors open 12.50pm), with an additional 8pm show on Halloween.
Tickets are €15 and include a lunch of soup and hearty bread.
Poe Show is said to be suitable for children over the age of 7 but you can check this and prices for children with Bewleys Café Theatre on [email protected] or 086-8784001.
IF, for any reason you can’t catch Poe Show during the two weeks in the run up to Halloween, the show is also doing a tour, Edgar Allan Poe: The Country House Tour.
I reckon experiencing it in the setting of a very old and possibly haunted house or church might actually add more to the ambience and the chilling fear factor!
The Glens, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim.
Thursday 15 Oct 8.30pm
Booking: 071 985 5833
Converted Methodist church dating back to the 1820’s
Leixlip Castle, Co. Kildare.
Saturday 17 Oct 8.00pm
Booking: 086 8267195
Performance in the Coach House of the 12th Century castle, now the residence of Desmond Guinness.
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath.
Saturday 24 Oct 8.00pm.
Booking: 046 909 2300
Intimate backstage setting with audience surrounded by Gothic drapery.
Sweeney’s Wine Merchants, Hart’s Corner, Dublin 7.
Tuesday 3rd Nov 8.00pm.
Booking: 01 8309593
Large and atmospheric wine emporium… the first in Ireland to host a theatrical event.
Anaverna, Ravensdale, Dundalk Co Louth.
Friday 6 Nov 8.00pm.
Booking: 042 9371490
Famous country house with 18th century stable block converted as theatre and artists studios.
Annesbrook, Duleek, Co Meath.
Saturday 7 Nov 7.00pm (dinner inc.) and Sunday 8 Nov 1.00pm (lunch inc.)
Booking: 041 9823293
An extraordinary venue…the banqueting suite specially built for a visit by King George IV in 1821
Higginsbrook, Donore, Trim, CO. Meath.
Tuesday 10 Nov 8.00pm.
Booking: 046 9431458
Exquisite early 18th Century Queen Anne House used as a main location in the film Becoming Jane (pictured above)
Conary Church, Conary, Co Wicklow.
Saturday 14 Nov 8.30pm.
Booking: 087 2334714
St Bartholomew’s Church, a Victorian gem, was built for the workers in the local copper mines in the 1850’s.
I knew the Poe Show was on in Bewley’s but did not make it there. Next time over I will definitely stay longer and do and see more..
Wow, this sounds like my cup of tea! (okay that was terrible)
lol
*sticks in the diary*
I think the church/castle locations really would add an extra layer to the spooky atmosphere.
Should be great alright - Emlyn, I’m thinking the same about the old places!
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