Details

Rescued near the North Pole, a dying Victor Frankenstein tells a British explorer Captain Robert Walton, an incredible tale of his cursed life. The eldest son of a wealthy Swiss family, Frankenstein is sent to University in Ingolstadt, where his brilliance and thirst for knowledge are soon clear to all. He develops an obsessive quest to create life and bestow it on an inanimate being, which he has constructed from the corpses of many experiments; something which horrifies even himself. When he succeeds in animating his creature, he is appalled by what he's done and hides from him; the creature disappears, only gradually does it become apparent that in creating this being, then rejecting him, Frankenstein has brought about the doom of all those who are dear to him. In this hideously unhinged reworking of Mary Shelley's literary monsterpiece, the doors are closed on the outside world and matters of life and death come under the microscope. But what's going on in there? Amidst the bottled faces and the wriggling limbs? And what's just slithered out of the Petri dish and into the audience. This classic Gothic tale is brought to life of stage and screen, propelling creator against creature in an hilarious, horror-filled adventure that brings Forkbeard Fantasy's renowned mix of eye-goggling cine-magic, cartoon animation and wild mechanical sets.

Creatives/Company

Book by: Mary Shelley
Producer(s): Bristol Old Vic, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Company: Forkbeard Fantasy
Director: Andy Hay
Design: Penny Saunders
Other: Robin Thorburn (cinematography)