Artistic Director, Adam Hemming, chats to Janette Eddisford and Amy Kidd, director and performer of the show The Last. We discuss feministic roots and burning bras, the fight about acting methods and the artistry and relevance of Mary Shelly's work, in advance of the run of The Last at the Space (playing 11th - 15th October, including a livestream on the 12th and on demand access for two weeks after that).
“Well, here is my story – the last story I shall have to tell. All that might have been bright in my life is now despoiled. I am a victim of fate, spared for reasons I cannot know or understand – bound for nowhere..."
Set in a 21st century world troubled by deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man is poignant and hugely relevant today. Written after the death of her husband and three of her children, it expresses Mary’s own sense of loss and isolation.
This one-woman adaptation explores the book’s biographical elements along with Mary’s use of gender. It draws on her graphic depiction of a world wracked by pandemic and her warnings of the dangers of mankind’s arrogance towards the world we live in.
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Theme Music: Monsieur Miaow by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Edit credit: Stephanie Schreiter
