Fascinating as the cash-grab adaptation it is. Some adaptive gestures are of interest – such as the ending, which seems to prefigure Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem" – but overall, this excels mostly at condensing and rushing through some of the novel's highlights and generally focusing on the story's least interesting aspects.

The only presumption in this play was Peake thinking he could pull this off. Mary Shelley is rolling in her grave.