Bournemouth celebrates the life and works of Mary Shelley as part of its 2010 Bicentenary
The Wavyblue artist’s group will run the Mary Shelley Festival which will take place over the first weekend in October 2010 at the Shelley Theatre Boscombe and the Shelley Manor grounds. We will hire the theatre and two rooms for performances and free open community workshops .
Diane Roberts and Miriam Troth will run creative workshops during the weekend with a drama/historical theme and link in to the national Campaign for Drawing, an annual event which runs every October.
We will hire two performers to perform cameos, read passages from the Mary Shelley journals and speculate about the connection between her unconventional life and her literary heritage.
This will be the stimulus for performances; play, poetry and novel readings and short story writing .
Diane Samuals is a London based , award winning playwright with an interest in Mary Shelley. She is keen to be involved in the early stages of the Shelley Theatre opening which will give the venture added credibility .