"Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein" is an adaptation for the stage of Mary W. Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein." When begun, this play was projected for a traveling troupe of only four actors and two actresses; strictures throughout -- that the actress who plays Elizabeth also voices the Demon, that the crew is ever unseen, etc. -- stem from this originating projection. This play then, can be played by four actors and two actresses. The Demon is a monstrous, hideous progeny. Only its voice has escaped deformity, and (because of the strictures applied here) is voiced by the actress who also plays Elizabeth. The Demon appears only suddenly and briefly, or in scenes pitched in darkness. It hides, cowled and draped in capes and furs. The horrifying life-form beneath is only for brief instants glimpsed by the members of the audience. What is seen onstage then, can be an inanimate creation of the set- and costume-maker's art as its voice is spoken from the wings, transmitted through speakers in the prop etc. The action takes place in two contiguous backgrounds: 1) a ship, in particular, the captain's cabin of that ship and the deck above it; and 2) an adjunct area, variously adapted for representing action contiguous to that being enacted in the captain's cabin.