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Mary Shelley reflects on her life

  • Writer: ann-evans
    ann-evans
  • Oct 5
  • 2 min read
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Lanternfish Theatre Company presents Mary Shelley. A new one-woman play by Tony Peters.

Performed by Susannah Foy. Lighting and video projections by Simon Kemp. At the Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon on 9 and 10 October.

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Mary Shelley reflects on her tempestuous life - the influence of her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, her father William Godwin and her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lonely and isolated, the past returns to haunt her, and almost drive her mad, - the loss of her children, her friendship with Lord Byron and the “the bane of her life” her stepsister Claire Clairmont. As the recollections crowd in she finds there is there is no escape from the enduring power of her creation - Frankenstein’s creature. Darkly Gothic and dramatic…a bold new production.


“My name is Mary…Mary Shelley. The year is…let me think, I think, I am sure it is 1851 and I am alive and I am 53 years old, yes. I am sick, and am told, may have only days to live. There is a swelling on my brain that causes these powerful spells of madness. Where once I could see with utter clarity now it is all fever full.”

Susannah Foy. Photo courtesy of Lanternfish Theatre Company.
Susannah Foy. Photo courtesy of Lanternfish Theatre Company.

Susannah Foy: Local actor Susie Foy has a huge passion for all aspects of the theatre and performing arts - from professionally acting as a child, to specialising in Creative Arts in education. She is the founder and director of The ImagiMill specialising in interactive storytelling experiences.


Tony Peters: During a long career Tony has written and directed over 50 performed works, his plays and productions have toured to Theatre and Arts Centres across the country. He is currently being Artistic Director for In2Theatre and plays the hurdy gurdy for Coranto!


Lanternfish Theatre Company: Lanternfish Theatre Company has a long history. Previous productions at The Bear Pit include Moscow Stations and The Odyssey with Simon Kemp and Forging Rembrandt Susannah Foy and Simon Kemp.

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For tickets (£14) contact The Bear Pit Theatre, https://www.thebearpit.org.uk/whats-on/mary-shelley/

                       

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