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        • A Tale of Two Parties!
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        • Bull
        • Papa Goose
      • Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2019
        • Auto-Nation
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        • Mashed Potatoes
        • Down the Plughole
        • Party
        • A Musical (The Musical)
        • Talk to me like the Rain
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
        • Dead Men Tell No Tale
        • Space Dogs
        • WAGGO
        • Givin' It Some
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        • HOUSEPLAY
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      • Riot Act
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      • The Scotsman
      • My Flatmate The Fish/Killer
      • Return to Sender
      • Can You Hear Me?
      • Time Zones
      • ACT II 2021
    • 2019/20
      • Sketch Fest 2019
      • Anything Goes 2019
        • King Mob
        • Things That Ooze Out of Me
        • Road
        • The Women Through The Window
      • Winter Musical 2019
      • 24 Hour Festival 2020
      • New Writers Festival 2020
        • The Last Of Them 2020
        • The Lover, The Father, The Innocent 2020
        • Taupe War 2020
        • If I Were A Sparrow 2020
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    • 2018/19
      • 24 Hour Fest 2018
      • Pantomime 2018
      • Anything Goes 2018
        • Postman vs. Milkman
        • Force D'Imaginer
        • Butterflies
        • FLAT
        • The Erl-King
        • Last Friday Night: A Katy Perry Musical
        • Shakespeare (& Friends) Festival 2019
          • Macbeth Studios
          • Pyramus and Thisbe
        • The Grey Area Festival 2019
          • 24 Hours
          • Ashes
          • The Door
          • Wake House
      • New Writers' Festival 2019
        • Biscuits
        • The Cabaret At The End Of The World
        • Najma's Fall
        • Hold On Me
        • She & Her
        • Late Night Live
      • Spring Fling Festival 2019
        • She is a Place Called Home
        • A Tale of Two Parties!
        • Cupcake
        • Bull
        • Papa Goose
      • Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2019
        • Auto-Nation
        • If I Die On Mars
        • At This Stage
        • Rock'n'Roll Girls
      • Pictland (ACT 2 FESTIVAL)
    • 2017/18
      • 24 Hour Festival 2017
      • A METHOD IN THE MADNESS Festival
        • The Dining Room
        • Love Potion No. 9
        • FractaL
        • Endgame
      • A Christmas Carol-ish
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • A Night of Mechanicals
        • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
        • i am the man?
        • Elsignored
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Polar
        • Stealth
        • And the Winters Cannot Fade Her
        • The Sound of Smoke
        • Spelunkers
      • Anything Goes 2018
      • Doorbell
      • The Premature Apocalypse
      • Don't Dress for Dinner
      • Blood and Ice
      • Spring Fling 2018
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
        • A&E
        • Rat Race
        • Same Old Same Oldies
        • Deadline
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      • 24 Hour Festival 2016
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        • Eve
        • Slight Delay
        • Another Country
        • Us and Them
        • Moonfleece
        • Made in Bangkok
      • Drapers: The Panto Musical
      • Shakespeare Festival 2017
        • Romeo and Lady Capulet
        • The Tempest
      • New Writers Festival 2017
        • Condolences
        • You Didn't Have To
        • When John Met Joseph
        • Cardboard City
        • Time Lapse
      • Spring Fling 2017
        • Mashed Potatoes
        • Down the Plughole
        • Party
        • A Musical (The Musical)
        • Talk to me like the Rain
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
        • Dead Men Tell No Tale
        • Space Dogs
        • WAGGO
        • Givin' It Some
    • 2015/16
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2016
        • Crapappella
        • Rotterz
        • iDolls
        • Monkhouse
      • London Edinburgh Fringe Previews
      • Spring Fling Charity Festival
        • Brains
      • Anything Goes Festival
      • JELLYFISH (ACT 2 Festival)
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Blind Mice
        • Toxicity
        • Bump
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • Twelfth Night
      • Den
      • Musical Festival
        • Twisted Testicles Festival
          • The Maids
          • Men Without Shadows
          • Dracula
          • Playhouse Creatures
      • 24 Hour Festival 2015
    • 2014/15
      • Mnemonic
      • Gas
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2015
        • A Fistful of Hunny
        • D.I.M - Department of Ideal Matchmaking
        • HOUSEPLAY
        • ACOrN - A Crunch or None
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      • Chocks Away
      • Epitasis
      • Riot Act
      • ...And Other Bitter Things
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      • Sweeney Todd
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      • Coping
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BLOOD AND ICE

It is on a dreary night in March that we behold the accomplishment of our toils. Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead explores the events leading up to and following the creation of Frankenstein. At the behest of the infamous Lord Byron over an indulgent weekend in Lake Geneva, a small and incestuous group of literary figures: Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Claire Clairmont compete over who can create the most ‘horrifying’ story. Plagued by her own creation, Mary Shelley recalls in poetic detail the legacy of Frankenstein and the tragic fates of her creative contemporaries.

So don’t spurn our company, for one night only come spend some time with your beloved, bohemian, congenial companions from the Norton Anthology of Poetry. 

Here in Blood and Ice we are at a spooky juncture between the Gothic and the Romantic. We have the strangest presentiment that something terrible is going to happen…

(and remember, for all you who slept through GCSE English, Frankenstein IS NOT the monster!)

WRITTEN BY
LIZ LOCHHEAD
DIRECTED BY HANNAH HAYDEN & JAZ MANVILLE
LIGHTIND DESIGN CHARLIE HURFORD
TECHNICAL OPERATOR CINDY KIM

CAST:
​

RHEA DOSHI
AIDAN PARSONS
ARCHIE BROWN
CHARLOTTE HURFORD
CHRINTINA BEAUMONT

Email: company@qmtc.co.uk
Feel free to get in touch with us!

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      • Time Zones
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        • Things That Ooze Out of Me
        • Road
        • The Women Through The Window
      • Winter Musical 2019
      • 24 Hour Festival 2020
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        • The Last Of Them 2020
        • The Lover, The Father, The Innocent 2020
        • Taupe War 2020
        • If I Were A Sparrow 2020
        • Thirst 2020
        • White Linen, Grey Clouds 2020
    • 2018/19
      • 24 Hour Fest 2018
      • Pantomime 2018
      • Anything Goes 2018
        • Postman vs. Milkman
        • Force D'Imaginer
        • Butterflies
        • FLAT
        • The Erl-King
        • Last Friday Night: A Katy Perry Musical
        • Shakespeare (& Friends) Festival 2019
          • Macbeth Studios
          • Pyramus and Thisbe
        • The Grey Area Festival 2019
          • 24 Hours
          • Ashes
          • The Door
          • Wake House
      • New Writers' Festival 2019
        • Biscuits
        • The Cabaret At The End Of The World
        • Najma's Fall
        • Hold On Me
        • She & Her
        • Late Night Live
      • Spring Fling Festival 2019
        • She is a Place Called Home
        • A Tale of Two Parties!
        • Cupcake
        • Bull
        • Papa Goose
      • Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2019
        • Auto-Nation
        • If I Die On Mars
        • At This Stage
        • Rock'n'Roll Girls
      • Pictland (ACT 2 FESTIVAL)
    • 2017/18
      • 24 Hour Festival 2017
      • A METHOD IN THE MADNESS Festival
        • The Dining Room
        • Love Potion No. 9
        • FractaL
        • Endgame
      • A Christmas Carol-ish
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • A Night of Mechanicals
        • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
        • i am the man?
        • Elsignored
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Polar
        • Stealth
        • And the Winters Cannot Fade Her
        • The Sound of Smoke
        • Spelunkers
      • Anything Goes 2018
      • Doorbell
      • The Premature Apocalypse
      • Don't Dress for Dinner
      • Blood and Ice
      • Spring Fling 2018
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
        • A&E
        • Rat Race
        • Same Old Same Oldies
        • Deadline
    • 2016/17
      • 24 Hour Festival 2016
      • Location Location Location
        • Eve
        • Slight Delay
        • Another Country
        • Us and Them
        • Moonfleece
        • Made in Bangkok
      • Drapers: The Panto Musical
      • Shakespeare Festival 2017
        • Romeo and Lady Capulet
        • The Tempest
      • New Writers Festival 2017
        • Condolences
        • You Didn't Have To
        • When John Met Joseph
        • Cardboard City
        • Time Lapse
      • Spring Fling 2017
        • Mashed Potatoes
        • Down the Plughole
        • Party
        • A Musical (The Musical)
        • Talk to me like the Rain
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
        • Dead Men Tell No Tale
        • Space Dogs
        • WAGGO
        • Givin' It Some
    • 2015/16
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2016
        • Crapappella
        • Rotterz
        • iDolls
        • Monkhouse
      • London Edinburgh Fringe Previews
      • Spring Fling Charity Festival
        • Brains
      • Anything Goes Festival
      • JELLYFISH (ACT 2 Festival)
      • New Writers' Festival
        • Blind Mice
        • Toxicity
        • Bump
      • Shakespeare Festival
        • Twelfth Night
      • Den
      • Musical Festival
        • Twisted Testicles Festival
          • The Maids
          • Men Without Shadows
          • Dracula
          • Playhouse Creatures
      • 24 Hour Festival 2015
    • 2014/15
      • Mnemonic
      • Gas
      • Edinburgh Fringe 2015
        • A Fistful of Hunny
        • D.I.M - Department of Ideal Matchmaking
        • HOUSEPLAY
        • ACOrN - A Crunch or None
    • 2013/14
      • Chocks Away
      • Epitasis
      • Riot Act
      • ...And Other Bitter Things
      • Our Shaun
      • Sweeney Todd
      • Othello
      • Coping
      • Monkeys & Typewriters
      • Old Gristle
      • Deprescos