One-hour program includes a 40-45 minute monologue in-character, followed first by a question and answer period with “Mary Shelley” and then by a question and answer period with the scholar/presenter.
Susan Frontczak will perform as Mary Shelley the young woman who created Frankenstein in an authentic Chautauqua performance Saturday October 21st at 2 p.m. at the Steeple Event Center 701 Macon Ave.
“I shall give an answer
to the question so very frequently asked me —
How I, then a young girl of eighteen,
came to think of, and to dilate upon,
so very hideous an idea
as Frankenstein?”
to the question so very frequently asked me —
How I, then a young girl of eighteen,
came to think of, and to dilate upon,
so very hideous an idea
as Frankenstein?”