National Theatre Live

Frankenstein: A Creature Learning to Stand

A story we think we know begins somewhere unexpected, with a newborn who cannot yet stand. By turning Mary Shelley’s novel inside out, this Frankenstein makes us feel the loneliness of being abandoned long before we are asked to judge what that loneliness becomes. It leaves one lingering question: what do we owe the things we bring into the world?

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