Shared Experience: sharing the work

by Veronica LeeTuesday, 05 July 2011

Opening up the process: Shared Experience's joint artistic director Polly TealeLinda Nylind

Shared Experience is certainly living up to its name; in a radical departure from normal theatre conventions, the company is currently sharing part of its rehearsal process with audiences as it develops Helen Edmundson’s latest work, Mary Shelley, which tells the astonishing story of how Shelley came to write Frankenstein at the age of only 18.

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