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The Gravedigger: A Frankenstein Play (Stage Fright Collection #1)

The Gravedigger: A Frankenstein Play (Stage Fright Collection #1)

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Publication Date: December 8th, 2014
Publisher:
Sordelet Ink
ISBN:
9780692347980
Pages:
150

Description

"At its heart, Zettelmaier's play is concerned with the deepest questions of how a human soul is formed." - Chicago Tribune

A gothic drama inspired by Mary Shelley's classic novel. Set in the late 1700s, in one of Bavaria's forgotten cemeteries, a lone gravedigger discovers a hideously scarred man hiding in a fresh grave. What the gravedigger doesn't know is that the man is none other than the legendary monster created by a mad doctor. What the scarred man doesn't know is the gravedigger's hand in his creation. And what neither men know is that they are hunted by their shared past.

"Zettelmaier's play is an exploration of what makes a person human. If we are more than the collection of our parts, when does our soul develop?" - Pridesource

About the Author

Joseph Zettelmaier is a Michigan-based playwright and four-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award for best new play, first in 2006 for All Childish Things, then in 2007 for Language Lessons, in 2010 for It Came From Mars and in 2012 for Dead Man's Shoes. Other plays include Salvage, Northern Aggression, Dr. Seward's Dracula, All Childish Things, Invasive Species, Dead Man's Shoes, The Scullery Maid, Night Blooming and Ebenezer. Point of Origin won Best Locally Created Script 2002 from the Ann Arbor News, and The Stillness Between Breaths also won Best New Play 2005 from the Oakland Press. The Stillness Between Breaths and It Came From Mars were selected to appear in the National New Play Network's Festival of New Plays. He also co-authored Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest at the Williamston Theatre (Winner of the 2009 Thespie Award for Best New Script). He also adapted Christmas Carol'd for the Performance Network. It Came From Mars was a recipient of 2009's Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and won Best New Script 2010 from the Lansing State Journal. His play Dead Man's Shoes won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011. He is an Associate Artist at First Folio Theatre, an Artistic Ambassador to the National New Play Network, and an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches Dramatic Composition.