Lo-fi homage to Poe will give you a lunchtime scare

Almost two centuries after they were published, Poe’s creations can seem lurid and melodramatic to modern readers

Michael James Ford and Elliot Moriarty in Poe Show at Bewleys Cafe Theatre, Dublin

Poe Show: A Celebration of the Work of Edgar Allan Poe

Devised and directed by Michael James Ford

Bewley’s Café Theatre, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, Dublin

Runs until November 4

Rating:****

A pitifully nervous young man (Elliot Moriarty), barefoot and wearing a torn prison uniform, is dragged by his jailor on stage. He pleads with us not to think him mad, then launches into a grisly account of how he murdered an older man ...