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Review | Richmond Shakespeare’s Frankenstein: The Post-Modern Prometheus
There was a time for me growing up when Frankenstein was just a green guy that chased Scooby-Doo around. He adorned a cereal box of strawberry-flavored sugar that my mother would never buy. He slowly lumbered after my favorite mid-century comedy duos. And that was the entire story of Frankenstein.
Literally that. Neck bolts, forehead stitches, lift boots, and a somnambulant groan summed up the character pretty well for the purposes of any audience still entertained by the conceit.
At some point, we would grow up and realize there was a book about this guy. We’d seen the movies already, the cheesy ones and the funny ones. They introduced us to the melodrama of scientific hubris. All morality tales of the consequences of playing God; very “behave, or God’ll gitcha.” Prometheus as told in Sunday school.
He also did a killer rendition of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in a top hat and tails.
Most of us remained there in our appreciation for the very story that invented modern science fiction. In recent decades, there’s been a push to remind non-readers that there was yearning in those moans and something real those outstretched, patchwork arms were reaching for.
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There was a time for me growing up when Frankenstein was just a green guy that chased Scooby-Doo around. He adorned a cereal box of strawberry-flavored sugar that my mother would never buy. He slowly lumbered after my favorite mid-century comedy duos. And that was the entire story of Frankenstein.
Literally that. Neck bolts, forehead stitches, lift boots, and a somnambulant groan summed up the character pretty well for the purposes of any audience still entertained by the conceit.
At some point, we would grow up and realize there was a book about this guy. We’d seen the movies already, the cheesy ones and the funny ones. They introduced us to the melodrama of scientific hubris. All morality tales of the consequences of playing God; very “behave, or God’ll gitcha.” Prometheus as told in Sunday school.
He also did a killer rendition of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in a top hat and tails.
Most of us remained there in our appreciation for the very story that invented modern science fiction. In recent decades, there’s been a push to remind non-readers that there was yearning in those moans and something real those outstretched, patchwork arms were reaching for.
Read more, see more. Link in bio.
Featured: @richmondshakespeare
✏️: @seethetreeproductions
📸: @suttenphoto
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#richmond #rva #rvamag
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