This week, I will be covering two shows in The Brick Theater’s Game Play Festival. Not much to Pre-Game, but I did want to get a few things down before posting reviews later this week. This is the fifth year of the Festival, which highlights works that live at the crossroads of video gaming and performing arts, and I am embarrassed to say this is the first … Continue reading GAME PLAY FESTIVAL PRE-GAME (Bonus Round)
Ignoring all of its other virtues, Mac Rogers’ play Frankenstein Upstairs certainly deserves special commendation for including such an intriguing program note: Frankenstein Upstairs is set in Brooklyn in the present day. As the action takes place in the same fictional universe as Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the novel and its adaptations do not exist in this play, and the name “Frankenstein” holds no associations … Continue reading REVIEW: FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS
This week I will be reviewing Mac Rogers’ play Frankenstein Upstairs. Before the review posts tomorrow, I am putting up a series of “Pre-Game” posts, where I talk a little about the Mac Rogers plays I’ve covered before and how perspective figures into each of them. You can read the first part, about Rogers’ play Universal Robots, here. Throughout 2012, Gideon Productions presented the full cycle of … Continue reading FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS PRE-GAME: THE HONEYCOMB TRILOGY
This week I will be reviewing Mac Rogers’ play Frankenstein Upstairs, which according to the press materials transplants the Frankenstein story into a contemporary Brooklyn apartment building. As the title suggests, the main characters are Dr. Frankenstein’s downstairs neighbors. This crafty slant doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me; I’ve been covering Rogers’ work for a couple of years now and have found … Continue reading FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS PRE-GAME: UNIVERSAL ROBOTS
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