Beautiful Monster

Beautiful Monster is a new play depicting the final hours of the life of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. On the eve of her expected death, Mary, gripped by madness, is visited by the dead: her husband and Romantic poet Percy Shelley, their shared lover Lord Byron, and literary rival John William Polidori, author of the first known vampire fiction — fiction begun, along with Frankenstein, on that now famous night of ghost stories on the banks of Lake Geneva. As the clock ticks toward Mary’s death, she recalls in a series of hallucinations her heart-wrenching confrontations with Percy’s formidable mother and the tender friendship of her loving stepsister. She’s even confronted by the monster she created.

Note: This show includes nudity and sexual content.