CLONING MARY SHELLEY Created by Jack Lynch and Edie Campbell “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay Thus begins an enquiry into the life of Mary Shelley, her Frankenstein, his Creature, Prometheus, scientific research, cloning, turning 40, death, origami, making choices and making babies. Drawing on Mary Shelley's life, her novel and the Introduction to the 1831 edition, and on science, mythology, creation stories and much more, this one-woman play develops an intricate fugue of thought, image, and emotion on reproductive technology, the act of creation, and one's ability to know who and what one is. |