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Doctor Stein, Edinburgh Fringe Play

Doctor Stein - Playing at the Edinburgh Fringe and telling tales of Dr Frankenstein after his monster

Mr Stephen writes to let me know that he is involved with a play being shown at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival until the 18th of this month called “Dr. Stein” by Leitheatre. Telling the tale of what happened after the end of Ms Shelly’s story of Doctor Frankenstein, where the Doctor of the tale finds his way to that most murky, and yet ‘educational’ of cities – Edinburgh. With a history of internationally renowned medical research and “no questions asked” research specimens, the good Doctor fits right in. Reading a review of the show, it seems that this tale takes the far lighter side of the Doctor, and it should be classed as a comedy.
Above, an image from the set showing just some of the pleasantly Steampunk items that the Doctor fits his laboratory with, and I am informed that should you attend the play and wish to take a closer look at any of the props, you should reveal yourself as a fan of Steampunk to one of the technical crew at the interval.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 10:48 pm by Tinkergirl and is filed under Steampunk Images.

Jonathan North, Author

Although Mr Ushanka is indeed right in that the Creature jumped overboard and perished in the Arctic ice after it appeared that Dr Frankenstein was dead, it is a little known fact that the good Doctor had actually succumbed to deep hypotherma and exhaustion and, to the astonishment and pleasure of his ship mates, suddenly awoke soon after. He gradually recovered on the return journey and disembarked at Leith, then a major whaling centre and the port for Edinburgh, where he recommenced his studies.

Unfortunately Mrs Shelley failed to write this part of the story, so I was obliged to do it for her. For your interest we played nightly to good houses of twice the average audience numbers for Edinburgh Fringe shows, and the first-half finale, when amidst a lightning storm the steampunk-style equipment shown whirrs, sparks, smokes and crackles as the Creature comes to life, was particularly well received.

Ushanka

Hey, spoiler warnings. Don't read my post if you don't want to know what happens at the end of the book Frankenstein.

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Wait, what?

At the end of the book, the beleaguered doctor dies in the arms of the captain of an Arctic fishing vessel (the man who transcribed the whole of Herr Frankenstein's story and whose letters home open and close the novel). Afterwards, Frankenstein's monster (who was hiding in the ship too) becomes revolted with his own actions and plunges into the icy depths. One can assume that he perishes. In other words, I have no idea how this play can take place after the end of Ms. Shelley's book.

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