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Mary Shelley’s prophesies in her book Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, came to fruition some hundred years after publication on the banks of the Thames at Blackfriars.
Electricity, the source of her supernatural themes, became a true force of Power in the world, a force as destructive as it was beneficial.
Ghosts on a Wire follows the development of the worlds’ largest coal powered electric plant, The Pioneer as it lit the houses and streets of the affluent North Bank of the river, whilst destroying the homes and working-class communities on the South.
In the face of this, one woman, Octavia Hill, fought for the right for the ordinary people of Southwark to have decent homes and clean air.
Her story and that of our ghosts, recounts a tale of unworldly events, corruption, greed and resilience in the face of a Leviathan that was able to consume everything it encountered.
Octavia Hill Gerri Farrell
William Shelfer Andrew Fettes
William Blake Timothy Harker
Sarah Shelfer Ali Kemp
Harriot Yorke Deborah Klayman
Michael Faraday Tom Neill
Writer and Producer Linda Wilkinson
Director Paul K Taylor
Sound Designer and Composer Jack Baxter
Photographer and Graphic Design Martin Butterworth
Artist Adrian Chappell
Projection Design (Stagefright Films) Chris Lince
Costumes Penn O’Gara
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Theatre Address
Union Theatre,
Old Union Arches,
229 Union Street,
London,
SE1 0LR
