Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This immersive production took audiences back in time to 1806, when scientific discoveries were on the rise, ladies wore high-waisted dresses, and an ambitious experiment was at the top of a certain Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s list. This new adaptation by Alisa Stewart brought audiences inches from the ambitious doctor and his creature, inside the world in which they live. Told from the point of view of Margaret Saville, who always appeared in full color, audiences witnessed the creature’s journey of discovery and loneliness and Dr. Frankenstein’s determination to hunt down the terrible, murderous experiment that he created, all in classic black and white, a nod to the old Boris Karloff movie that started it all. 

THE STORY: The story follows Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life. He sets aside his relationships with his family to focus on being the first to bring a being to life using methods of reanimation, but is horrified by the Creature's appearance and immediately abandons it. The life of the Creature becomes a tragic one as he is rejected by society and struggles with isolation and the need for companionship, leading to its descent into violence and vengeance against its creator and his family.

This adaptation explores the human need for connection, the pain of isolation, and the complex relationship between creator and creation. 

THE SHOW: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was presented in promenade fashion, where audiences literally moved through the hallways and rooms of the Frankenstein residence, Victor’s laboratory at Ingolstadt, a distant island of Scotland, the moors of Geneva, a church, and the isolated cottage of the DeLacey family, where the monster learned to speak.