TILTED Wig theatre company comes to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre this week with an enthralling new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein. The play is at the theatre from Tuesday 4th to Saturday 9th November.

Séan Aydon’s reimagining of this classic Gothic horror, which comes to Poole as part of a six-venue tour, has an atmospheric set and a stunning original score. The story explores the fabric of what makes us human and the ultimate cost of chasing “perfection”.

It’s 1943 and as Europe tears itself apart, two women hide from their past at what feels like the very end of the world. And one of them has a terrifying story to tell

“I created life. You don’t believe me but it’s true. I didn’t start from scratch of course, but out of portions and odd ends I made something … alive. But what I created … it wasn’t a superhuman. It was a monster.”

Eleanor Mcloughlin plays Victoria Frankenstein with Basienka Blake as Captain/Richter, Cameron Robertson as The Creature, Dale Mathurin as Henry, Lula Marsh as Elizabeth and Annette Hannah as Francine.

Frankenstein has been adapted and directed by Séan Aydon, Tilted Wig’s artistic director, who was assistant director on the world premiere of Tom Fletcher’s The Christmasaurus at the Hammersmith Apollo and recently adapted and directed the national tour of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Mary Shelley is buried at St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth. In line with her wish to be buried with her parents, when she died in 1851, her son Percy – who had bought Boscombe Manor in 1849 as a home for her – had her parents’ coffin exhumed and interred in a family plot at St Peter’s with the heart of his father, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.