A Vindication of Frankenstein’s Monster

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Linda Marshall Griffiths reimagines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in the future.

In Norway, Lizzie meets Vic, a neuroscientist who wants to implant an artificial intelligence into a human body.

In Norway Lizzie meets Vic, a neuro-scientist working with Artificial Intelligence implant technology. Vic wants to implant an AI into a human body - something never achieved before - a woman creating a woman. 

Lizzie is torn by Wollstonecraft’s caged consciousness, that she has made another world that has no place where women can be free. Vic persuades Lizzie to consent to donate her body in the event of her death, so that the AI consciousness of Wollstonecraft can become embodied and be freed. 

And so Lizzie becomes the ‘Creature’ - an experiment of Vic  - a new genus. But neither woman is prepared for what this will unleash.

Lizzie and The Creature.....LYDIA WILSON
Mary.....DAISY HEAD 
Vic.....VINETTE ROBINSON 
Max.....SACHA DHAWAN 
Eli.....JOEL FRY 
Polly.....ANNEIKA ROSE

Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths based on Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark'
Sound design by Sharon Hughes
Production co-ordinators Vicky Moseley and Lorna Newman
Directed by Nadia Molinari

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Linda Marshall Griffiths reimagines Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft's ground-breaking feminist text on the rights of women, Linda Marshall Griffith's drama asks what would happen if a woman created a woman?

What makes a woman free? Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft's ground-breaking feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and moving into a radical re-imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), through to the contemporary world of AI, Linda Marshall Griffith's drama asks what would happen if a woman created a woman?

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