Frankenstein

Cast

Frankenstein - Colin Ash

Monster - Conor Maguire

Adapted directly from Shelley’s Gothic novel, Frankenstein tells the story of the unorthodox scientific experiment in which Victor Frankenstein animates lifeless matter to create a ‘monster’. Told through the voices of both Frankenstein and the monster, this production shares the story from the differing perspectives, as originally intended.

‘Patsy Hughes’ lean distillation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is ... an intense experience, cutting to the quick in its short, sharp focus on the rawly existential questions raised in Shelley’s Gothic Masterpiece’ - -

—Terence Blain on Frankenstein, Irish Theatre Magazine.

by Mary Shelley

A Green Room Production

Brian Friel Theatre

5th-9th June, 2012

'We sense in the carefully measured intimations of Colin Ash’s performance an individual propelled by something in him which he simply has no access to, or control over.'

—Terence Blain on Frankenstein, Irish Theatre Magazine.

'Under Hughes' direction, Conor Maguire’s monster is all the more effective for being essentially internalised and quiet-spoken, only occasionally erupting in primal fury at his predicament.'

—Terence Blain on Frankenstein, Irish Theatre Magazine.