By Helen Edmundson

Mary Shelley: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft; lover of Shelley; author of Frankenstein…

Helen Edmundson’s compelling play explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley - her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley - and its consequences for her sisters, her stepmother and above all, her troubled father, the political philosopher William Godwin.

Discover the people and events that led her to write a novel that would leave the literary landscape forever changed.

This play includes brief mention of suicide and neonatal death.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

CAST

Lucie Conroy (Mary Shelley)

Aaron Connelly (Percy Shelley)

Francesca Short (Fanny Imlay)

Lowenna Quantick (Jane Clairmont)

Malcolm Todd (William Godwin)

Dawn Price (Mrs Godwin)

Laura Sherratt (Harriet Shelley / Maid)

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