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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (stage version)

An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Adaptations (Literature)

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Jr High/Primary, Community Theatre
An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come.

A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world, Frankenstein's creature desperately seeks out his true identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push him into darkness. Dangerous and vengeful, the creature threatens to obliterate Frankenstein and everyone he loves, in a ferocious and bloodthirsty hunt for his maker.

Rona Munro's "inventive feminist adaptation" (The Stage) of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now. It premiered on a tour of the UK in 2019.
REVIEWS:

"An inventive feminist adaptation... an exploration and celebration of female creativity."

 The Stage

"By putting Mary onstage at the centre of things rather than a mere framing device, Munro has written something that gets to the heart of the creative process itself."

 Herald

Premiere Production: UK tour 2019.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F, 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, Good role(s) for younger performers, Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: All the main characters in this version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein are young: at the start of the play, Frankenstein is eighteen, and Elizabeth is fifteen. Mary is always eighteen. The Monster can be any age or gender. There is scope for an additional chorus.

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An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come.

A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world, Frankenstein's creature desperately seeks out his true identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push him into darkness. Dangerous and vengeful, the creature threatens to obliterate Frankenstein and everyone he loves, in a ferocious and bloodthirsty hunt for his maker.

Rona Munro's "inventive feminist adaptation" (The Stage) of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now. It premiered on a tour of the UK in 2019.

$24.95

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