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Frankenstein By Mary Shelley: Play Analysis

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Karla Franco-Cruz T.A. 260 Professor Damgen Shadow Paper The story of Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley. It is a story of when Victor created a monster in which he blames after his finding that his brother, William, was murdered. Frankenstein decided to go away and hide in which he felt as if no one would accept him. He then found Victor again and killed his bride. They were told to get revenge upon each other. I went in for rehearsal on Thursday February 8th, 2018. I went to go watch the behind the scenes rehearsal of a play, Frankenstein which is being directed by Tom Provenzano in which he has made his own twist to it. Provenzano has said based on LA Times written by Crystal Harrel, that the play would be based on students help, “There are students designing lights and helping with sound, so it’s a very student-orientated production.” This shows me something amazing because it gives students the ability to learn and be able to grow. As I walked in …show more content…

The stage area is quite big and gives the actors the ability to perform without worrying too much about how little space they have. Now for the theatre space and how it was set up, I saw that there were some parts of a couch. There was also a chair as well. There was a table and some half stairs. Also, there was some stage like board that they will use as a boat for the boat scene. During the rehearsal, the director told the actors to start off with Act 1 Scene 3. Before beginning, the stage manager gathered everyone around to let them know to be careful with the stairs because they aren’t finished. Henry, the stage manager also mentioned that when the actors went back stage or were back stage to not touch the curtain because it could create a wave in which the audience would be able to notice. This would lead to the audience focusing on the curtain instead of the actor’s performance and how hard they’ve been

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The cast members seemed like they were part of the production themselves, which gave the audience a lifelike impression from them. Throughout the play I did not notice any obvious flaws that the cast members exhibited, which was really professional in my opinion and as a result, made the production more appealing to the audience. There was also breaking of the fourth wall, as demonstrated by Igor, where she asked one of the audience members if they have found a missing brain. During the Finale Ultimo, is where the cast members really broke the fourth wall, as they did a talent show with the main members of the cast, which involved the audience clapping at the end of each talent performed. It was during this scene where the main cast members brought out their tap dancing abilities, which was well received with a standing ovation at the end of the

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Frankenstein, A novel written by Mary Shelley is about a creature that Victor Frankenstein creates and kills Frankenstein’s family. The monster gets created because Frankenstein does not care for him. Another way Frankenstein creates a monster is by not giving the creature what he wants. Victor creates a monster throughout the novel by not caring for the creature he created. In the novel it states, “Unable to endure the aspect of of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room”(Shelley 51).

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The set worked extremely well with the production. It was set up like a two story home, and took up the entire stage. There was a staircase on stage right, a couch and small table downstage center, windows along the back wall of the “bottom story,” and seven doors overall, and one curtain actors could pass through. For the second act, the set was turned around so the show was set backstage.

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The stage design gives the impression of the characters being in two separate rooms, the positioning of blocks and pillars helps again to demonstrate this. This intricate attention to detail enables the performance to be compared so similarly to the movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic, although the ‘big screen’ enables more room for a fast change in setting and shots, Rourke does a phenomenal job trying to create this illusion which works so brilliantly. The night before the wedding or you could refer to it as the ‘stag and hen do’ was an unexpected twist that the audience definitely did not see coming. Again, the revolving stage was used to represent the divide between the women and the men and to compensate for the lack of space that the stage could carry.

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