Mary Shelly

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Mary Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein, was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft a writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights, who died when Mary was just a tiny baby.

Helen Edmundson's compelling play explores a key period in the early life of Mary Shelley – her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was married at the time, and its consequences for her sisters, her stepmother and her troubled father, the political philosopher William Godwin.

The play covers a tumultuous two years of Mary’s life, from meeting Shelley to marrying him, shortly after which she anonymously published one of the greatest Gothic horror stories ever written.

“We cannot let our lives be small. There is no life but loving.”

By Helen Edmundson

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with NICK HERN BOOKS 

Directed by Andrew Leggott

The production contains the occasional sound of thunder and lightning.

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Tickets: £14.00
Over 60s: £12.00 (Mon-Thurs and Matinee)
Students: £6.00
Greenroom: £5.00
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Mary Shelly

Type:Play

Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road, Ilkley, LS29 8HB
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Opening Times

Season (24 Apr 2025 - 3 May 2025)
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Tuesday - Saturday19:30

* *Sat 26 Apr 14:30

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