Victor Frankenstein's Laboratory

Victor Frankenstein's Laboratory

Scene One

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN'S LABORATORY MIDNIGHT

Sounds of a thunderstorm. Flashes of lightning from a Gothic window intermittently illuminate Frankenstein's laboratory.

VICTOR

I worked hard for nearly two years - depriving myself of rest and health - for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

The engines of creation bang and crackle. Electrical charges zing across the lab from different directions. After a final series of lights and static, the laboratory settles into darkness and silence. A soft heartbeat begins and grows louder . . .

VICTOR

But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

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