Upcoming Events
May 2024
Stafford Gaol And How To Get There by Steve Geale
This lecture tracks the developing UK history of criminal Courts and Prisons. The talk will include Lichfield Assize at the Guildhall and the holding cell. Lichfield Gallows Wharf The purchase of the body of Thomas Williams (hanged 1762) The course of anatomical lectures held daily on the body at Erasmus Darwin House Tickets include tea/coffee Buy tickets here
Find out more »June 2024
Diary of a Nobody by Don’t Go Into the Cellar Theatre Company
One of the funniest books written during the nineteenth century receives a brand-new stage adaptation! Jonathan Goodwin plays hapless and humourless Charles Pooter, whose mundane existence provides the setting for this comedic look at suburbia. City clerk Charles Pooter is a very ordinary Nobody who nonetheless decides that his mundane life is worthy of posterity by keeping a diary. Now you are all invited to listen to his own accounts of his suburban life with wife Carrie and their friends,…
Find out more »Summer Solstice Garden Tour
Take a guided tour around our award winning peaceful herb garden. The tour will be led by a member of the Erasmus Darwin House Garden Team. After the tour enjoy strawberries and prosecco.
Find out more »October 2024
Victorian Gothic by Don’t go into the cellar Theatre Company
We present an anthology stage show based on a classic trio of nineteenth century chillers - The Body-Snatcher, The Monkey's Paw and Lot No 249. Dramatic story-telling in the theatre-style at its best! Actor Jonathan Goodwin performs a show scripted by himself and co-directed with Gary Archer. Book tickets here
Find out more »Lunar Lecture – Boys will be Girls will be Boys, the theatre pre and post Restoration by Janet Tennant
Boys will be Girls will be Boys- the theatre pre and post Restoration by Janet Tennant By the 17th century a professional theatre was established in England. After the execution of Charles I and the Civil Wars, Charles II, the Merry Monarch, a keen theatre goer, succeeded to the throne in 1660. The talk looks at the theatre before the Restoration and how it changed, irrevocably, afterwards. Book tickets here
Find out more »November 2024
Jekyll and Hyde by Don’t go into the Cellar Theatre Company
In a new and enthralling one-man stage adaptation of the classic tale of terror, acclaimed actor Jonathan Goodwin plays both Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. Journey with us to Victorian London, and experience the unbridled horror of this perennial favourite. The City is paralyzed with fear when the repugnant and wicked Mr Hyde embarks upon his criminal spree. But what is his shocking secret, and what possible connection can he have with the dour and respectable Dr Jekyll? Goodwin performs…
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