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As the
play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down
his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right
the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he
believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own
responsibility and guilt – for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is
evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being
who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the
very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the
past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique
when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant,
quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments
between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the
Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the
Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and
experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil – culminating in the
Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?" |