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You don't see many flamboyant, frock-coated philosophers these days, but there are quite a lot of them in Derby. Joseph Wright's eerie, shadow-clad scientists line the walls of the city's art gallery, and the same sharp chiaroscuro enshrouds Uzma Hameed's painterly staging of the Mary Shelley classic.
Other theatres have attempted to stage Frankenstein but failed to bestow it with the gift of life. I recall one particularly ludicrous 7ft-tall naked man prompting pensioners' seats to flip up at York Theatre Royal....