Stages, Theater

Review: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at Lookingglass Tells a Dazzling Creature Origin Story

Last year was the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s landmark horror novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which explains why we have been able to see four different […]

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Stages, Theater

Manual Cinema Creates Strangely Enchanting Multimedia Frankenstein at Court Theatre

Manual Cinema is presenting a weirdly enchanting version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at Court Theatre. Nine puppeteers and musicians display the original story of Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature, combined with […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Remy Bumppo’s Poetic Frankenstein Asks How a Lonely Creature Becomes a Monster

Frankenstein opens with an exquisitely staged birthing scene. The Creature is shrouded in a sheer fabric sac, a metaphoric womb. He struggles to free himself and emerges naked, covered in scars […]

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