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HORROR CLASSIC AT OPEN HAND.(Weekend)(Theater Notebook)(Column)
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
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October 17, 2003
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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 2002 and gave it four stars ...
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