Tilted Wig presents FRANKENSTEIN
TUESDAY 5 – SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER - 7.45pm (Thurs, Sat mats 2.30pm) (THEATRE)
Age guidance: 12+
Tickets and information 01202 280000
Seán Aydon’s acclaimed adaption of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein will begin a second major UK theatre tour this autumn, playing at Lighthouse Poole from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 November.
Complete with an atmospheric original score, this new thriller inspired by the classic Gothic novel explores the very fabric of what makes us human and the ultimate cost of chasing ‘perfection’.
Emily-Jane McNeill (The Mousetrap and Brexshit, both West End) will play Victoria Frankenstein, with Tawana Dingembira (recent RADA graduate) as Henry and Brianne Surgeoner (Pal: Your AI Companion and Adrift, Citizen’s Theatre) as Francine. They are joined by original cast members Basienka Blake (Rufus Norris’s Cabaret and The Da Vinci Code) as Captain/Dr Richter and Lula Marsh (recent graduate of Manchester School of Theatre, shortlisted for the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award) as Elizabeth.
It’s 1943 and as Europe tears itself apart, two women hide from their past at what feels like the very end of the world. And one of them has a terrifying story to tell…
“I created life. You don’t believe me but it’s true. I didn’t start from scratch of course, but out of portions and odd ends I made something –alive. But what I created... it wasn’t a superhuman. It was a monster.”
Frankenstein is an electrifying reimagining of the world’s favourite horror story that will send shivers down the spine and ignite the imagination.
Frankenstein is adapted and directed by Séan Aydon who was assistant director on the world premiere of Tom Fletcher’s The Christmasaurus at the Hammersmith Apollo and recently adapted and directed the national tour of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The production has design by Nicky Bunch (Potted Panto costumes, Apollo Theatre & Garrick Theatre), lighting by Matt Haskins (Peter Pan Goes Wrong – Broadway, West End, Canada, The Empress – RSC) and a score by Eamonn O’Dwyer (Brief Encounter at Watermill Theatre, Lady Chatterley’s Lover UK Tour; Twelfth Night & Henry V at Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York).
Frankenstein is produced by Tilted Wig Productions.
*Mary Shelley is buried in St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth. In line with her wish to be buried with her parents, when she died in 1851 her son Percy – who had bought Boscombe Manor in 1849 as a home for her – had her parents’ coffin exhumed and interred in a family plot at St Peter’s with the heart of his father, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.