Cascade Dance Theatre tours Wales with Frankenstein, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece

Cascade Dance Theatre is a Cardiff based repertory touring company. In Wales, their work is focused on the Creu Cymru dance touring network that reaches across the whole of the country in venues as disparate as Theatr Taliesin in Swansea, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Blackwood Miners Institute and Neuadd Dwyfor in Pwllheli. This month the company is presenting an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece FRANKENSTEIN in venues across Wales. The first edition of the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, written by author Mary Shelley (1797–1851), was published on 1 January 1818.

Just over two hundred years ago, newly-weds Percy and Mary Shelley were on holiday on the banks of Lake Geneva, in the company of their friends and fellow writers Lord Byron and John Polidori. The group was consigned to the house for three days because of bad weather. Byron decided to set his friends the challenge of writing the scariest ghost story. Two years later, Mary Shelley's story Frankenstein, about Victor Frankenstein, who creates a monster that brings tragedy to his life, was published to great acclaim. 

This November, a new Frankenstein is born as the Cascade Dance Theatre company, of six performers and two musicians, bring to life Artistic Director Phil Williams’ (winner of Wales’ Best Male Dance Artist Award at the Wales Theatre Awards 2017) compelling new adaptation of the ultimate gothic fantasy. Visit www.cascadedancetheatre.co.uk for full tour details.