Above all, it’s Bouldon, as Mary Shelley and Elizabeth, and Wade as Byron and the Creature, who draw out the power, pain and humanity of the two parallel stories told across one play.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...