Frankenstein; Or A Modern Prometheus
The Firebird Project, which gives new spins to classic tales, presents director Zoe Senese-Grossberg's new adaptation Mary Shelley's 1818 mad-scientist golem story, the mother of modern horror fiction. The story stays faithful to the original while teasing out its queer underpinnings, as perhaps embodied by the partly gender-unconventional casting of the show's four actors: Sophie Falvey as Frankenstein, Jason Maina as Clerval, Eli Wassertzug as Elizabeth and Benny Rendell as the Monster. (The squeamish should be warned—and the prurient alerted—that the show includes simulated sex, violence and gore and unsimulated nudity.)