Examines the perceived madness of Mary Shelley, whose sensational personal life and loss of her children found release in her novel Frankenstein; Emily Dickinson, the 19th century American whose poems reached far beyond the confines of her reclusive life; the utopian feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, plagued by depression, whose story The Yellow Wallpaper highlighted the horrors of confinement for women termed ?mad'; and Virginia Woolf, the modernist genius whose own demons would eventually consume her. Run time: 2hrs 15mins. Part of A Significant Role - a season of 3 new plays presented by Barefaced Theatre| 6 Oct 12 to 13 Oct 12 | General Outer London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive |
