What You Need To Know
The Story You Know...With a Twist
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is one of the most retold stories in the world.
This new play, Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley, written in 2016 by Rachel Atkins, is a stylized, side-by-side telling of the story of Frankenstein’s young author alongside her original tale of horror.
The Play
Moving back and forth between the layered worlds of the book and the world in which Mary Shelley was writing (and sometimes blending the two), Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley is a dark, gothic, drama about an extraordinary young woman, the strange times she lived in, and all her many monsters
A Note From The Director
Amidst the backdrop of a not so far removed harsh and judgemental world, the director of the play, John W. Rutherford, asks his audience to determine how one defines a monster and where within us our own monsters lie.
