Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is one of the most known and retold stories in the world. Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley tells the equally compelling true story of Frankenstein’s young author alongside her original tale of horror. An unmarried, ostracized, pregnant teenage mother when she wrote her first novel, Mary Shelley faced as much death, drama, romantic and family problems during its writing as her characters do. The ways her life informed her creative choices sheds new light and offers a new point of view about this classic horror story. Moving back and forth between the layered worlds of the book and the world in which Mary Shelley was writing (and sometimes blending the two), Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley is a dark, gothic drama about an extraordinary young woman, the strange times she lived in, and all her many monsters.

Ideal for university, high school and youth productions. Two 30-minute, competition-length versions of this script are also available (for larger and smaller casts): https://newplayexchange.org/plays/208033/frankenstein%E2%80%99s-mary-sh…