An English teacher by day, director Preston Loomer has taught Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” a number of times. Each time he revisits the novel, he feels as if it’s even more interesting and relevant with an undercurrent of modern topics in an old story.

Reading the script of Nick Dear’s “Frankenstein,” a stage adaptation of “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley, Loomer wanted his production to feel very “now,” but also feature the science fiction and horror elements Shelley introduced to the literary world.

Loomer had heard from others that Dear’s script was intimidating, because it was laid out very cinematically, but he thought it gave him a lot to work with.

Perhaps the biggest change with Dear’s script is that in his adaptation, the story is told from the perspect

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