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    Genesis: The Mary

    Shelley Play

    by

    Mary Humphrey Baldridge

    978-1-55435-203-6

    Playwrights Guild of Canada


    Copyright Notice

    This work is fully protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all countries of the International
    Copyright Convention, and is subject to royalty payment. This work may not be reproduced or transmitted
    in any form without specific permission, in writing, from the author or his/her agent.

    Changes to the script are expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the author or his/her
    agent.

    All rights to this play are strictly reserved.

    All rights, including publication, professional or amateur stage rights, motion picture, lecturing, recitation,
    public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video picture or sound recording, all other forms of
    mechanical or electronic reproduction, such as CD-ROM, CD-I, DVD, information storage and retrieval
    systems and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are retained by the author.

    This script may not be photocopied.

    This work is available through Playwrights Guild of Canada. For information about stage performance
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    www.playwrightsguild.ca

    Playwrights Guild of Canada is a national association of professional and emerging playwrights. PGC
    acknowledges the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts
    Council and the Government of Canada through Foreign Affairs Canada.
    GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play

    PRODUCTION HISTORY

    GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play premiered originally as, simply, The Mary Shelley
    Play at Theatre Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, on November 7, 1978, directed by Rick
    McNair and designed by Pat Flood.

    Cast in alphabetical order:

    George Gordon Lord Byron - John Hamelin


    Claire Clairmont - Donna Goodhand
    Dr. Polidori - Robert Greenwood
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Paddy Campanaro
    Percy Bysshe Shelley - Christopher Youngren

    The Mary Shelley Play was the recipient of a three-month’s Canada Council Artist’s
    Grant. It received a workshop production at Theatre 3 in 1977, directed by Mark
    Schoenberg, and a full production by the Scheme Ov Things Theatre Ensemble in 1985,
    directed by Svetlana Zylin, at the Poor Alex, Toronto, as well as university productions at
    Ryerson University, Toronto and the University of Western Ontario.

    The Mary Shelley Play was REVISED and renamed GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play;
    NYC/USA premiere, co-produced by The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the
    Theatre and Deep River Productions November 3, 1994, directed by Kathleen Patricia
    Cullen, designed by Harold G. Baldridge. It was subsequently produced at Evergreen
    College, Olympia, WA, directed by Elizabeth Ripley.

    Lord Byron - Peter Giles


    Claire Godwin - Cameron Miller
    Dr. Polidori (Polly) - Jay Gordon
    Mary Shelley - Juliet Kerr
    Percy Bysshe Shelley - Sean Hagerty
    The Creature - Dan Mendeloff
    THE CHARACTERS

    LORD BYRON, age 28


    (Note: research reveals that Lord Byron was called Elbe and/or Albe)
    CLAIRE GODWIN, age 18
    DR. POLIDORI (POLLY), age 25
    MARY SHELLEY, age 19
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, age 24
    THE CREATURE

    SETTING

    Lake Geneva, early summer, 1816. The action of the play takes place in the living room
    of Diodati, Byron’s villa, and the bedroom of Mary and Shelley’s villa, now named the
    Maison Chapuis, which was located up the hillside from Diodati.

    PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTES:

    Although the play is written in two acts, it has been performed successfully without an
    intermission.

    Mary has several interior monologues, during which the action of the play stops. These
    monologues should be indicated by a lighting change and cessation of sound.
    MARY HUMPHREY BALDRIDGE: Playwright, poet and short story
    writer, published and produced in the USA, Canada and Australia. Plays
    include THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOMENT; GENESIS: The Mary Shelley
    Play; Ruth & Robert & Robert & Ruth; LA BONNE DAME: Remembering
    George Sand (dance/drama in English and French); THE REVENGE OF
    THE DINOSAUR LADY, 2009 Finalist in the Mountain Playhouse
    International Comedy Playwriting Contest. New plays include LAND
    WARRIOR, 2010 Finalist Centenary Stage Company Susan Glaspell contest,
    and The COLD HOUSE. She has also contributed short plays to the
    statenislandferry/A-train plays and East Village Chronicles, NYC. She
    conducts the Playwrights Lab at the Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC.
    Founding Member Playwrights Guild of Canada; Lifetime Member Dramatists
    Guild NYC. http://www.dramatistsguildweb.com/members/mhb/

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