Locative Story-Paths Debut: Shelley's Heart

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It’s alive! Celebrate Halloween and Frankenstein’s 200th Anniversary by conjuring ghosts in St. Peter’s churchyard. Your smart phone will navigate one of four story-paths and unlocked chapters in these multi-media narratives. Visit the Shelley tomb and interact with Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron. Then get set to confront Frankenstein’s most frightening creation: the Monster!

Free event!

What: world premiere of location-aware story of Shelley’s Heart.
Where: St. Peter’s Churchyard, Bournemouth, BH1 2EE
When: Halloween, 31st October 2018, 5pm 
Who: Ages 14 up (bring a smart phone!)

About The Event
The web app is free to access via both iPhones and Androids with 4G activated. Register on the website. 

Shelley’s Heart empowers you to read minds, time travel and raise the dead! This location-aware story celebrates the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein by linking 4 story-paths to locations in St. Peter’s churchyard in Bournemouth town centre, the site where Mary Shelley is buried. Debuting on the 31st of October (Halloween) 2018, this interactive, multi-media experience reimagines historical figures as modern hipsters. Each of the 4 stories traces a different path through the churchyard and  focuses on a specific character, including contemporary versions of Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats, plus the ghost of Percy Shelley, a restless spirit desperate to locate his missing heart. Reality and fantasy merge as these characters confront various fears and desires manifest as Mary's most celebrated and ferocious creation, the Monster. Penned by 5-time Emmy nominee Bradford G, Shelley’s Heart combines video, audio, animation and Augmented Reality to bring these exciting, passionate and tragically flawed writers back to life.

For more info please visit the website. 

Presented by: Bournemouth University, The Bournemouth Borough Council and Doppelganger Productions