Mary, Mary

A dark and stormy night; young Mary Shelley sets out to write a horror. We know what follows. But how did the monster come to be? In the turmoil of Mary's mind, past and present blur, and the created becomes the creator. Confronted with ghosts of her past, Mary grapples with the ultimate question - what happens when the dead come back to life?

Theatre Mensch premiere their new work marking 200 years since Mary Shelley started writing her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, and celebrating the lives of an extraordinary mother and daughter who never had the chance to know one another.