This week saw the unveiling of a long-awaited statue. Yet the Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture is a striking example of artistic gaslighting: how literally to belittle a woman whilst purporting to honour her.
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This week saw the unveiling of a long-awaited statue. Yet the Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture is a striking example of artistic gaslighting: how literally to belittle a woman whilst purporting to honour her.
Plunged into darkness, with a crash and a flash, we are on Captain Walton’s ship, trapped amidst the ice. 200 years after Mary Shelley’s iconic novel was published, April de Angelis and the Royal Exchange Theatre reignite life into the pages of Frankenstein.