Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
by Mary Shelley, Barbara Field

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120 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmericanAdaptationMystery

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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

Year1989
BindingPaperback
Pages72
PlaceNew York, N.Y
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822208990
ISBN-100822208997
LCCPS3556.I3665 P55 1989b

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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