Scary Mary

Daughter of Feminism, Mother of Sci-Fi, the original Goth girlfriend: Mary Shelley is spooky AF. Scary Mary is a darkly funny, gothic deep-dive about the bold, talented, and spooky AF Mary Shelley. The Monster Mash-Up of Siouxsie Sioux and a Tim Burton leading lady, Scary Mary is here to drag her secrets out of the crypt and onto the stage. Find out if she really lost her virginity on her mother’s grave, how her smash-hit Frankenstein galvanised from winning Lord Byron’s Lake Geneva Summer of 1816 ghost-story contest, and exactly what is inside that heart-shaped box in her writing desk... Part Post-Punk fever-dream, part confessional séance and the debut show from Friday’s Child Productions, Scary Mary crashes sizzling solo gig-theatre into historical profile to resurrect the literary icon whose life was every bit as strange, electric, and genre-defying as the monster she created.