Frankenstein: The Play

Frankenstein: The Play

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), PatrickSandford (Author)

Synopsis

Patrick Sandford's startling and highly evocative dramatisiation of Mary Shelley's much-loved Victorian gothic novel FRANKENSTEIN. In the depths of the frozen Arctic, a sea captain rescues a young man who reveals he is pursuing someone across the ice. This man is Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young student who has discovered the secret of creating life from the remains of the dead. From this startling beginning a nightmare tale of horror and madness unfolds. Reimagined for the stage, Shelley's original novel is brilliantly brought to life in a new adaptation by Patrick Sandford, Artistic Director of Southampton's Nuffield Theatre and adapter of other major literary works for the stage including The Wind in the Willows and A Christmas Carol.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 09 Mar 2011

ISBN 10: 184842194X
ISBN 13: 9781848421943

Author Bio
PATRICK SANDFORD is the artistic director of the Nuffield Theatre Southampton. He has adapted several works for the stage including A Christmas Carol and The Wind in the Willows.

MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) was a novelist, dramatist, essayist biographer and travel writer. Married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley she was most famous for creating the gothic novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. The novel was written during an infamous summer spent at the Villa Diodati, near Lake Geneva, with the notorious Lord Byron when Mary was just eighteen.