One-man show written and performed by Jonathan Goodwin, adapted from classic terror tales by H.P. Lovecraft, with macabre themes in a museum setting.
Jonathan Goodwin brings A Fright in the Museum to Middleport Pottery on Saturday 31 October, a one-man show he's written and performed himself. It's adapted from classic terror tales by H.P. Lovecraft and other writers, and the whole thing is staged in a museum setting with macabre themes running through it — vampires, ghouls and Egyptian mummies. It's a single performer on stage, so it's Goodwin carrying the stories on his own.
The show is part of Middleport Pottery's Don't Go Into The Cellar theatre nights, a series they bill as the one in which the dead are brought to life. If you've been to one of their previous nights, you'll know the sort of thing they're after here: the museum backdrop and the cellar title both lean into the spooky side of things, and A Fright in the Museum fits right into that.
It arrives as part of a wider autumn programme across Stoke-on-Trent, a city that's spent the season leaning on its heritage as the home of British ceramics and a World Craft City. Alongside the Halloween theatre, there are pottery workshops, a new ceramic fair, cult film screenings and a book festival, so if you're in town for the show, there's plenty else going on around the city this autumn.
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Middleport Pottery is on Port Street in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 3PE. Doors open at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm, so you've got an hour to get settled before Goodwin takes the stage. Tickets are £18.
