The Last (Coach House Theatre)

Based on Mary Shelley’s The Last Man

By award-winning writer Sam Chittenden, featuring Amy Kidd.

Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today. Written after the death of her husband and three of her children, it expresses Mary’s own sense of loss and isolation and features characters based on Mary herself, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Claire Claremont.

This one-woman adaptation explores the biographical elements of the story. It draws on Shelley’s graphic depiction of a world wracked by a pandemic and the dangers of human arrogance.

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORK

For ‘Clean!’

“A true homage to the women it celebrates” (Fringe Review)

Outstanding Show Award Winner, 2021

★★★★★ (Latest Brighton; Broadway Baby; Musical Theatre Review)

For ‘Unquiet Slumbers’

“Oozing with thoughtful & resonant writing” 

For ‘Sary’

“Like an intimate production of a National Theatre play”

“A stunning way with words”