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Part of a series of dramatizations of well-known novels, selected for Key Stage 3 students, this play examines the monster's situation in a sympathetic light, and shows how the experiment to create an artificial human being went horribly wrong.
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I bought this for my daughter studying from home during the lockdown. I read Frankenstein when I was not much older than her and was interested to see how Pullman adapted it for the stage.
The play seemed short, it took little more than an hour to read the entire thing (and that includes coffee breaks). I liked that he introduced another female character as they were sorely missing from the novel. Mostly it just made me want to read Shelley's book again, I probably will soon!
The best thing in the book was not the play or the activities for school children to work through (although they were very interesting) but the addition of Dylan Thomas's ‘The Hunchback in the Park'. I've never actually read any of his poetry before but I'm off to buy a book right now!