Frankenstein, the play by Nick Dear (2011)
The National Theatre script, which starts with the creature’s birth.
Drop Walton and Victor’s long account, and begin the moment the creature wakes up alone. The audience learns the world as it does.
You want the story from the creature's side, short enough to read in an evening.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the creature’s education, the De Lacey family, the demand for a mate, the chase north.
Changes: the point of view. Things the novel tells as backstory happen on stage, from the creature’s side.
Whose story is it?
the creature’s.
How much time does it ask?
96 pages in Faber & Faber’s paperback.
Faber & Faber, “based on the novel by Mary Shelley”, 96 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition