Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
by Mary Shelley, Barbara Field
Synopsis
THE STORY: As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole.
Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evi
Press Reviews
"PLAYING WITH FIRE manages to be both intellectually stimulating and thoroughly engrossing."
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
"It works almost like poetry—each layer of comprehension uncovers another layer of questions."
— Minneapolis City Pages
"…powerful, thought-provoking theater."
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Playwright Field has written a morality play that speaks to some of the most basic concerns of our time."
— Minnesota Public Radio
Publication
Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein) is a American adaptation play written by Mary Shelley and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, N.Y (1989).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1989 · 72 pp
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