Schedule
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein 16+
120 minutes, without intermission
Puppet technique: bunraku, mask, giant puppet
Nick Dear: Frankenstein
Stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel
"A master has duties, but you would have let him die. I am not a slave. I am free. But
I am lonely. Every creature has a mate, every bird in the sky. Why do you deny me
the comfort that you yourself will share? A moment ago I was impressed with my intellect, but now
you have hardened your heart. I ask nothing but the possibility of love!"
Victor Frankenstein, the brilliant, ambitious young scientist, made a living body out of dead bodies, a breathing, feeling, thinking being
but he is frightened by his own creation and pushes it away. Creature begins with the innocent curiosity of a child
with the curiosity of an innocent child, but encounters only horror, rejection and hatred. His power is great, his anger
His loneliness is the most terrible loneliness imaginable, for there is no one in the world like him. Visit
to his creator to make him a mate...
Mary Shelley's 19th-century horror novel is a story of the wonder and responsibility of creation, of the creator and the created
Shakespearean tragedy of the eternal interdependence of the creator and the creature.
FRANKENSTEIN was first performed at the National Theatre in London on 5 February 2011.
Cast:
Csaba Teszárek, Bartha Bendegúz e.h., Attila L. Nagy e.h.
Victor Frankenstein....................................................................................................... Sándor Márkus
Elizabeth, Victor's fiancée, The Female Creature.................................................. Laura Podlovics
Klaus, beggar, Ewan, farmer.................................................................................... Zsolt Tatai
Gustav, beggar, Rab, farmer.................................................................................... Tibor Szolár
De Lacey, blind old man.............................................................................................. Gyöngyi Blasek
Felix, his son....................................................................................................................... Gergő Pethő
Agatha, his daughter-in-law, Gretel, prostitute, Clarice, maid of the Frankenstein family.............. Bettina Csarkó
Monsieur Frankenstein, father of Victor................................................................................ Gábor Beratin
William Frankenstein, brother of Victor................................................................................ Emil Engárd
Ingolstadt inhabitants, servants in Frankenstein's house
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