PATRICK SANDFORD is the artistic director of the Nuffield Theatre Southampton. He has adapted several works for the stage including A Christmas Carol and The Wind in the Willows.
MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) was a novelist, dramatist, essayist biographer and travel writer. Married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley she was most famous for creating the gothic novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. The novel was written during an infamous summer spent at the Villa Diodati, near Lake Geneva, with the notorious Lord Byron when Mary was just eighteen.
