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There are Many tickets available for this 2pm matinee performance. TIX will be selling until 12 noon, 780.420.1757, and then you can purchase them at the Timms Centre on U of A Campus. Saturday and Sunday matinees are the ONLY performances with tickets still available.
The characters of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature have few if any precedents in literary history, and have in a relatively short amount of time claimed places in the pantheon of gods, heroes and monsters from the great myth cycles of ancient civilizations around the world. Frankenstein is a powerful contemporary myth, one that speaks on both the personal and the collective level and explores deeply felt, if rarely expressed, fears and longings that transcend time and space. It is a story that seems at once topical and timeless. Like all great myths, everything about this story is writ larger than life. It asks the question, "what if?", taking feelings and experiences that are universally understood and pushing them to their extremes. In the process, it stretches our imaginations to the very limits of probability. It is a brilliant exploration of what happens when we fail to take responsibility for what we have put out into the world, on both an individual and societal level. It is an excruciating examination of the human capacity to turn what is beautiful and pure into something twisted and grotesque. And it is one of the most compassionate yet unforgiving portraits of the outsider that has ever been written. This production of Frankenstein aims to tell the story as a modern day fairy tale for adults, to build an apparently simple, light and streamlined vessel that can contain dark, complex and contradictory truths, a world that is at once whimsical, nostalgic and tender, horrifying, brutal and ugly, one that walks the tightrope that’s stretched between tragedy and comedy, that belongs more to the world of dreams than that of our waking lives, and that, for its duration, speaks more to the heart than it does to the mind.
The production won eight Sterling Awards, sold out in Calgary, Vancouver, Saskatoon and twice in Edmonton. It is back in Edmonton in a slightly revised version for eight performances only before moving to Toronto for a month long engagement. Advance purchase is strongly recommended.
Featuring the original cast of Nick Green, Andrew Kushnir, Sarah Machin Gale, Tim Machin, Nancy McAlear, Dov Mickelson, Tracy Penner and George Szilagyi.
Presented with the collaboration of the Timms Centre for the Arts and the Department of Drama, University of Alberta.
2 hours 20 minutes including intermission. Suitable for ages 12 and up.
