Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist who wrote the
Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818).
Rona Munro is a writer who has written extensively for stage,
radio, film and television.
Her plays include: James V: Katherine (Raw Material and Capital
Theatres tour, 2024); Mary (Hampstead Theatre, 2022); James IV:
Queen of the Fight (National Theatre of Scotland, 2022); a stage
adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (UK tour, 2019); a stage
adaptation of Louis de Bernières' novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin
(UK tour & West End, 2019); Scuttlers (Royal Exchange,
Manchester, 2015); The James Plays trilogy (National Theatre of
Scotland, the Edinburgh International Festival and the National
Theatre of Great Britain, 2014); Donny's Brain (Hampstead Theatre,
2012); Pandas (Traverse, 2011); Little Eagles (Royal
Shakespeare Company, 2011); The Last Witch (Traverse Theatre &
Edinburgh International Festival, 2009); Long Time Dead
(Paines Plough & Drum Theatre Plymouth, 2006); The Indian Boy
(RSC, 2006); Iron (Traverse Theatre, 2002; Royal Court, London,
2003); The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre, 1995); and Bold Girls
(7:84 and Hampstead Theatre, 1990).
She is the co-founder, with actress Fiona Knowles, of Scotland's
oldest continuously performing, small-scale touring theatre
company, The Msfits. Their one-woman shows have toured every year
since 1986.
Film and television work includes the Ken Loach film Ladybird
Ladybird, Aimee and Jaguar and television dramas Rehab (directed by
Antonia Bird) and BAFTA-nominated Bumping the Odds for the BBC. She
has also written many other single plays for television and
contributed to series including Casualty and Dr Who. Most recently,
she wrote the screenplay for Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim
Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving.
She has contributed several radio plays to the Stanley Baxter
Playhouse series on BBC Radio 4.
'An inventive feminist adaptation... an exploration and celebration
of female creativity'
*The Stage*
'By putting Mary onstage at the centre of things rather than a mere
framing device, Munro has written something that gets to the heart
of the creative process itself'
*Herald*
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