Mary Shelley News

A GOTHIC Weekend of Hallucinations Last night, I was circling a local used video store for some long forgotten haunts when I happened upon GOTHIC .

Absurdist Comedy Announces Extension THE DIARY OF Anne Frank ENSTEIN, Shows added thru November 29 at 13th Street Rep Theatre A L'Orange has announced the extension of its World Premiere production of THE DIARY OF Anne Frank ENSTEIN, an absurdist re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic by Ilya Sapiroe.

Humans naturally gravitate towards each other and form societies. Isolation from the company of others has serious negative repercussions.

In his time as artistic director of Bristol Old Vic, one of Andy Hay's missions was to establish close links with independent companies in the region.

Frankenstein; the story created by Mary Shelley is a story within a story. The edition gives an introductory account of why and how the infamous tale was created.

MIXING young people with a production of Frankenstein could turn monstrous but this performance has a spark which brings it to life.

Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides , finding anything worth tuning into this week.

THE Everyman will be transformed into the harsh landscape of northern Scotland for its youth theatre annual production.

When "Frankenstein" was released in 1818, there was no way Mary Shelley had any idea how widely read and culturally relevant her prose would be in the 21st century.

For nearly two centuries - since Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" defined the genre - science fiction has been our most forward-thinking medium.

HOPES of developing cultural links between Bournemouth and Viareggio are high after members of the Friends of Shelley Manor visited the Italian seaside town.

Is this too obvious a point? Science fiction isn't about the future; it's about the present .

A NEW version of Mary Shelley's story Frankenstein is being performed tonight in Liverpool.

MANSFIELD -- 'Playing with Fire ' is not meant to frighten, but Joseph Fahey said the Ohio State University-Mansfield production will leave guests feeling a range of emotions.

'It's alive. It's alive!' If conventional horror flicks just aren't doing it for you on the scare-o-meter, consider a good-old-fashioned scream fest on Halloween night.

While driving to Germantown Community Theatre to take in a rather unfortunate production of Gorey Stories my twin girls started asking questions about Frankenstein .

A minority of literary historians have, over time, advanced the claim that Mary Shelley did not actually write the classic "Frankenstein," and that her husband, Percy, simply dictated it to her.

The Creature: Drama. By Trevor Allen. Adapted from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Directed by Rob Melrose.

Frankenstein's castle is not a figment of our imagination, the memory of a scene in your favorite scary movie, a set of plaster walls found at your favorite theme park 365 days a year.

If you're going to attempt to rewrite a classic, you darn well better have a fresh perspective and not a hacky, overwrought "surprise" ending tacked on in the final two pages.