FRANKENSTEIN

2004 DERBY PLAYHOUSE

director UZMA HAMEED

design JON BAUSOR

choreographer ARTHUR PITA

lighting design LUCY CARTER

music KEVIN TOWSE

sound design MATT MCKENZIE

video design KIT LANE

Ambitious young scientist Victor Frankenstein leaves his loving family and beautiful fiancé to study medicine in Ingolstadt. Whilst there he becomes obsessed with learning the secret of creating life and successfully develops a fully formed ‘man’ using the deceased remains of a convict. When Victor disowns his creation, the creature is filled with rage and threatens to destroy everything that Victor loves.
First published in 1818, Frankenstein remains a tale ahead of its time, foreshadowing developments in science and modern debates about the ethics of cloning.

" Spine-freezing and stomach-turning moments.....This Frankenstein is a persuasive composite of high-tech staging and old-fashioned melodrama, so carefully fused you can barely see the bolt through its neck "
The Guardian