Mary W. Shelley’s Frankenstein

"Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein" is an adaptation for contemporary poetic theater of Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein." The prism of this theater version refracts the novel's protean tale by developing the frame narrative of the original -- the story of Walton, the Artic explorer and ship's captain, and his vessel's rescue of Victor, the creator of the "hideous progeny" who, in hiding, follows Victor onto the ship. In this adaptation for the stage, the nameless "demon" or "hideous progeny" of the original is a voiced-over scenographic effect, even as her-his story is being re-enacted in a play-within-the-play devised by Walton from -- as in the original -- the story recounted by Victor.