The Tell-tale Heart

This is a thrilling new supernatural murder mystery by John Goodrum, based on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic Victorian chiller.

Imagine you have committed a murder. Imagine someone heard the scream and the police come calling. They’re friendly enough, but will your conscience betray you? And what is that noise in your ears that grows ever louder? Is it the beating of your own guilty heart … or is it the heart of the man you’ve just killed!

When Clarry Straven is sent out of London by his solicitor boss to make an inventory of the contents of a large house, he takes lodgings with Roderick Bounty, an apparently welcoming local landlord. But something about his host unsettles him, stretching Clarry’s already delicate nerves to breaking-point … and the horrific consequences change Clarry’s life forever.

Rumpus Theatre Company is no stranger to Edgar Allan Poe. Their production of THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM is “gripping and terrifying” (whatsonstage.com), “highly recommended” (remotegoat.co.uk) while THE HORRIFIC CASE OF MR VALDEMAR was “excellent … enthralling and enticing … the tension can be cut
with a razor blade” (Northumberland Gazette)

Set firmly in the Victorian Gothic of Poe’s original, The Tell-Tale Heart promises much much more of the same … “intense atmosphere and delicious plot … you have no excuse to miss this fine production” (Derby Telegraph on THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM)