Frankenstein National Theatre

An audio podcast of a platform event where Josephine Hart’s star-studded readings bring the poetry alive with her astute observations and illuminating asides. Celebrating the great romantic-gothic world of Frankenstein, she presents the work of Shelley, Byron and their Romantic contemporaries.

With special guests Damian Lewis, Dan Stevens and Harriet Walter.

An audio podcast of a platform event that offers a glimpse into the life of Mary Shelley with Claire Tomalin, biographer of her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, and Daisy Hay, author of Young Romantics, celebrating the idealistic circle who were there when Shelley first told the tale of a monster.
Chaired by Richard T Kelly.

A pdf document with detailed information about the process of bringing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to the stage. With rehearsal diaries, photographs, interviews and more.

A trailer for the production of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. In this trailer Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate in the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, as they do through-out the run, and perform an extract from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Nick Dear talks about the dramatic possibilities of Mary Shelley's novel and about the challenges of presenting the story from the perspective of the Creature.

Danny Boyle and Nick Dear talk to Christopher Frayling about adapting Frankenstein for the stage.