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Short Play, Drama / 7w, 5m, 3 any gender (adult)
By Jon Jory and Michael Bigelow Dixon A One-Act Adaptation of Mary Shelley's Novel
It’s 1818, and Victor Frankenstein is a medical student at Ingolstadt University on the verge of a scientific breakthrough: His goal is to reverse death. Ignoring warnings from those around him, Frankenstein puts together a human body with parts from different corpses and brings it to life. But rather than celebrate his success, Frankenstein abhors the “Monster” he created and curses its existence. When the Monster pleads for compassion, Frankenstein rejects him, and the Monster seeks revenge through a series of murders. This succinct one-act retelling of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece calls into question the lines between hero and villain and asks: What are the costs of science without responsibility or empathy?
PROFESSOR WALDMAN – 50, female. PROFESSOR KREMPE – 40, male. VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN – Late teens/early 20s, male. URSULA CLERVAL – Student, 18, female. ELIZABETH LEVANZA – Victor’s cousin, 20, female. THE MONSTER – Male WILLIAM – Victor’s younger brother, early teens, male MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN – 50, female. BAILIFF – 30, gender neutral. KARIN MULLER – 50, female. JUSTINE MORITZ – 20, female. FATHER OF ELIZABETH – 60, male. 2 or more ASSISTANTS in Frankenstein’s Laboratory – 20s, gender neutral. BODY ON GURNEY – 20s, female. Doubling: PROFESSOR WALDMAN and KARIN MULLER or MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN PROFESSOR KREMPE and BAILIFF or FATHER OF ELIZABETH CLERVAL and JUSTINE MORITZ or FEMALE BODY ON GURNEY
Various locations: Interiors and outdoors in Germany and Switzerland. 1818.
Michael Bigelow Dixon is a playwright, director, and professor of theatre. For 17 years, he supervised the reading and selection of plays for the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He then moved to Minneapolis, where he created a new ...