Based on feedback from student evaluations about the need to include a creative assignment in the
course, I recast one of the required critical, analytical essays that I had required students to write and
instead asked students to write a short (one scene or one episode) dramatic script or screenplay in
which they incorporated characters and themes from the various theatrical and cinema adaptations of
Frankenstein we had studied. I discovered that students were continuing to exercise critical thinking in
the designing and planning of their short scripts as well as creative abilities as they applied ideas and
concepts from the theatre and the cinema to their own projects. Some turned to parody and
satire. Some generated scripts appropriate for children. A few extrapolated characters and themes into
science-fiction projections. And some created tragedy and tragic-comedy. Furthermore, the students
enjoyed sharing their scripts with classmates, fostering discussions about the artistic choices we make
when we control the images and words of theatre and cinema.