Frankenstein's Ball
An Immersive New Year's Eve Experience
Frankenstein’s Ball invites audiences into the eccentric and extravagant world of Mary Shelley’s contemporaries as she struggles to find the right ending to her novel on New Year’s Eve.
Step Back in Time and into the life of Mary Shelley to Celebrate a New Year
Victor Frankenstein
Every life contains a series of cycles.
The wheels of fate spin in every possible direction.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s life has gone through rapid changes since giving birth to his creation, so he is represented by the Wheel of Fortune.
This card means that you will be exploring His life in the midst of this major shift. It will be a shift in his career opportunities and luck in his personal life.
It might also mean Great misfortune and unforeseen set-backs.
I’ll let you be the judge which it is.
Mary Shelley
The creatrix herself.
The Author, Mary Shelley.
The Author is traditionally associated with maternal influence and creative abundance. Mary has had success and challenges with both.
It also represents the creation of new life and art.
The shadow of the card can allude to moments of stagnation and domestic challenges.
The Monster
What makes any creature a human?
Are any of us born with a sense of our own purpose, sense of meaning?
Is being born without that sense fair?
That’s the journey of The Monster His journey for self-discovery is grounded in the exploration of what is and is not just and fair. He is searching for balance and equilibrium. He is discovering that each action has its own consequences.
The shadow of this card is that such an exploration can often lead to tragedy, despair and a strong sense of imbalance.
Percy Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelly, The Author’s husband...The Lover.
Percy is a man with many complicated relationships outside of his marriage to Mary.
Claire...Byron… his writing. He is torn about his feelings for others and how they impact his work and his connection to Mary.
The card’s shadow concerns itself with difficult choices in partnership.
Percy has some choices to make with regards to his future and his marriage.
Lord Byron
The demon, the seducer, George Gordon Byron.
He is the central figure in this menagerie of characters, at least in his own mind.
The card is about sensual pleasure, lust and deception. Powerful energies for a creative soul, but the card’s shadow is addiction and enslavement.
Byron wants to consume life and the lives of the people around him.
Claire Clairmont
The Dreamer, Claire Clairmont,
Mary’s half-sister.
The moon represents the world of the imagination and the subconscious.
Claire wants to exist in the realm of her sister and her friends, but the literary life is not her gift.
The shadow of the card is deception and illusion.
Claire is involved in many complicated relationships, (Conspiratorial) but she is also harbouring a secret that will disrupt her world.
