Frankenstein

FRANKENSTEIN

Based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Perhaps the story of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" begins in 1815 on an island in what is now Indonesia. The volcano Tambora erupted there at the time, spewing ash and sulphur into the atmosphere and killing 70,000 people. The ash clouds spread and absorbed the sunlight. Mary spent the following "year without a summer" at Lake Geneva with friends. Hailstorms raged outside and they wrote horror stories inside. There, Mary invented the doctor Viktor Frankenstein, who creates a creature from corpse parts and endows it with self-awareness. Perhaps the story of "Frankenstein" also begins with the history of feminism, as Mary's mother and role model was the women's rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft. What is certain, however, is that the story of Frankenstein's monster is not over yet. It lives on in films such as "Poor Things" (2023) - and at the Oldenburg State Theater! Maja Delinić and her team have already shown with "Pride and Prejudice* (*or so)" that they are experts in a contemporary female perspective on great novels and are now coming back to ask the big questions about science and creation and enchant the stage of the Kleines Haus.