TUESDAY 5 – SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER
7.45pm (Thurs, Sat mats 2.30pm) (THEATRE)
Age guidance: 12+
Tickets and information 01202 280000
Full casting has been announced for Séan Aydon’s brand-new adaption of Mary Shelley*’s classic novel Frankenstein which will play at Lighthouse Poole from Tuesday 5 until Saturday 9 November as part of major UK theatre tour.
This new thriller, inspired by the classic Gothic novel and complete with a stunning original score, explores the very fabric of what makes us human and the ultimate cost of chasing “perfection”.
Eleanor Mcloughlin will play Victoria Frankenstein with Basienka Blake as Captain/Richter, Cameron Robertson as The Creature, Dale Mathurin as Henry, Lula Marsh as Elizabeth and Annette Hannah as Francine.
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.
The production is unsuitable for under 12s.
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.
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