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For the first time in the UK, Dr Frankenstein will be played as a woman. Dr Victoria Frankenstein is the gender-switched protagonist of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, which is being showcased at Newcastle's Northern Stage.

Selma Dimitrijevic, who wrote the adaptation, and Fiona Stafford, an English professor at the University of Oxford, discuss the play's history and the lack of strong female protagonists in the arts.

(Image: The monster in Frankenstein. Credit: AP)