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FRANKENSTEIN<br />
FRANKENSTEIN<br />
The doctor will<br />
see you now<br />
Dr Victoria Frankenstein, aka actor Polly Frame, offers an insight into life<br />
with her creature on their current stay in Newcastle<br />
How are you enjoying life in<br />
Newcastle? My experiments<br />
take <strong>up</strong> quite a lot of my time,<br />
including my study of the<br />
chemistry of gin at Bealim House.<br />
The livestock on the Town Moor<br />
may also yet feature in my work.<br />
What do you think of the<br />
shopping in the city centre?<br />
We both enjoy designer clothes,<br />
though this can be challenging<br />
for the Creature who, at 8ft<br />
tall and on the, um, broad side,<br />
struggles to find things to fit,<br />
which is a shame, as he fancies<br />
himself a bit of a Tom Ford. We<br />
also nip down to the ironmongers<br />
on a Saturday morning to get the<br />
Creature’s bolts tightened. He<br />
considers this a vital part of his<br />
grooming routine.<br />
If we were meeting in the pub,<br />
how would I recognise you? I’d<br />
be the one demonstrating how<br />
to distil G&T into pure ethanol.<br />
The Creature (I don’t call him the<br />
monster because he’s actually a<br />
soft-hearted sweetie pie, despite<br />
his recently revealed pathological<br />
drive to murder me) likes a Bloody<br />
Mary at The Bacchus, though for<br />
some reason he struggles to find<br />
drinking partners.<br />
How else do you spend your<br />
time? We love a game of Scrabble<br />
in the evening, we’re planning to<br />
go to The Great North Museum:<br />
Hancock for its new skeleton<br />
show, and we’ve enjoyed some<br />
classes at Dance City – Tango<br />
mainly. We hope to get a call from<br />
Strictly Come Dancing, though<br />
the Creature is a bit more Ed Balls<br />
than Anton du Beke.<br />
What’s on the menu in your flat?<br />
The Creature’s tastes are pretty<br />
simple – mainly raw meat, blood,<br />
brains and bones, which he likes<br />
to suck. As mentioned earlier, the<br />
Town Moor is an area of interest<br />
for us.<br />
Where do you go on holiday?<br />
I love a lakeshore retreat. In<br />
Venezuela, where the Catatumbo<br />
River meets Lake Maracaibo,<br />
there are some 250-plus storms<br />
a year, each featuring around<br />
nine hours at a time of lightning,<br />
which I particularly like. You<br />
can get a similar effect in some<br />
nightclubs, though the Creature<br />
struggles to find dance partners…<br />
Polly stars in Northern Stage’s production of Dr Frankenstein adapted by Selma Dimitrijevic, directed by Lorne<br />
Campbell and designed by Tom Piper MBE, creator of the Poppies: Weeping Window installation at the Tower of<br />
London.<br />
February 3-March 11, www.northernstage.co.uk<br />
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