David Hurst takes a look at Frankenstein at Classic Stage Company:
Running in repertory with Classic Stage Company's ill-advised production of Kate Hamill's Dracula is an even more misguided new dramatization of Mary Shelley's 1818 epistolary novel, Frankenstein. Written by playwright Tristan Bernays, who replaced Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm as adapter, this Frankenstein is a tedious and uninvolving slog. Directed with lackluster inspiration by Timothy Douglas and running 80 minutes without an intermission, Shelley's story about man's inhumanity to man is now a story about a theatre company's inhumanity to its audience. |
