Performance

VenueNorthern Stage
TownNewcastle upon Tyne
CountyTyne and Wear
From3rd February 2017
Opened8th February 2017
To11th March 2017
When19:30. Feb 8 at 19:00. Feb 11, 25, 28, Mar 11 Mats 14:00
What is currently on at Northern Stage (V568)

Dr Frankenstein

Dr FrankensteinT0358451679
You are forever responsible for what you create. Victoria Frankenstein is a brilliant, visionary young woman born into a world not ready for her. The industrial revolution is dawning and the British Empire circles the globe. It's an age of enlightenment, a time where old orders begin to crumble and everything seems possible. Provided, of course, that you are an English-man. Women are not allowed to study medicine in England, so Victoria travels to Ingolstadt, Bavaria to fulfil her destiny and become Dr Frankenstein. Convinced that there is no magic, no god, only undiscovered science, Victoria's experiments lead her to the very brink of human knowledge: the secret of life itself. In the dark of night, a creature is given life. There is violence, there is anger, there is fear. There will be consequences. This psychologically disturbing new version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein tells a truly great story of power and powerlessness, of fear and revenge; of the creative possibility and terrible destructive power of the human animal.
Book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Adapted by Selma Dimitrijevic


Archive :: production:T0358451679, play:S0108576096, venue:V568

Production details

Part of Queens of The North - A season of great female stories and great female storytellers at Northern Stage

Special Performances


  • 9 Mar 17 Sign Interpreted
  • 10 Mar 17 Captioned
  • 11 Mar 17 Touch Tour
  • 11 Mar 17 Audio Described

Reviews

Overall: 2.00
tony brotherton (23Feb17): tries hard and fails on many levels not least the poor character portrayls and the lecturing dialogue 2

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Company

Producer Northern Stage
Producer Greyscale
Director Lorne Campbell
Design Tom Piper
Lighting Lizzie Powell
Sound Nick John Williams
Performer Polly Frame (Polly Frame (Dr Victoria Frankenstein()
Performer Ed Gaughan (The Creature)
Performer Scott Turnbull (Henry Clerval)
Performer Victoria Elliott (Elizabeth Frankenstein)
Performer Donald McBride (Victoria's father)
Performer Libby Davison (Mary)
Performer Rachel Denning (Justine Moritz)
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