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''The past haunts the present, and the present is a kaleidoscope of infinite possibilities.
'Set in the near future of wild storms and oppressive social controls, Darkness transports audiences into overlapping worlds of mystery, transformation, fantasy and wonder. A site-responsive theatrical experience like no other; rich and seductive, gothic and resonant.
'Amid thunder and lightning, five deeply-curious and combative friends defy orders to take refuge in an abandoned house, now an eerie mansion of lost things. At its centre is the infamous poet Byron who, confronted by nature’s wrath, turmoil and plague, is caught in a tug of war of life and death.'
Source: Production blurb.
Notes
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Inspired by the 'year without a summer' (1816) and the gathering in the Villa Diodati (also in 1816) of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Claremont, and John Polidori, a gathering that led to both Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre.
Production Details
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Produced at the Newtown School of Arts from 10 January - 19 February 2023.
Director: Dino Dimitriades.
Dramaturg: Andrew Bovell.
Cast: Caroline L. George (Mary), Jerome Meyer (Percy), Imogen Sage (Claire), Alec Snow (Byron), and Zoran Jevtic (Polidori).
