Offspring (A Modern Frankenstein) Emily Terndrup

In this visceral reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Terndrup fuses explosive choreography with razor-sharp story-telling into a fierce, funny and fearless meditation on creation and consequence.

Part gothic horror, part personal reckoning, Offspring is a pulse-racing collision of theatre and dance that grabs its audience by the throat and the heart. At its centre is a woman in her mid-to-late 30s, grappling with desire and dread as she contemplates the closing window to biological creation.

Offspring is riotously funny, breathtakingly physical and unexpectedly devastating.

As she plunges into the chaos, the beauty and the terror of creation, the performance becomes the monster itself: volatile, tender, contradictory and profoundly human.

Created and performed by Emily Terndrup Offspring was a triple award-winner at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2025, taking Best Performer, Best Design, and Radical Sprit of the Fringe. It was named Best Production and Best Dance Production of 2025 by The Arts Review.

Darkly funny and disarmingly tender, Terdrup's work is bold, intelligent and utterly original Offspring guarantees to spark questions long after the final breath.

Co-presented by Cork Midsummer Festival