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Article: HORROR CLASSIC AT OPEN HAND.(Weekend)(Theater Notebook)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2003
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Byline: NEIL NOVELLI THEATER NOTEBOOK
Open Hand Theater brings back "Frankenstein," one of its most imaginative productions, at 8 p.m. today, Saturday, and Oct. 24 and 25.
Geoffrey Navias, who wrote and directed the show, bases it on Mary Shelley's 1818 thriller "Frankenstein" and ingeniously links Shelley's novel with life today.
We see two women in modern prison cells, both caught up in dramas of their own. And we also see Open Hand's colorful puppets act out Shelley's original story of a man who creates a monster and abandons it.
The three stories run separate courses but indirectly get closer and closer. I reviewed the show in ...