Time: 7:30pm
Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 South 2nd Street
Frankenstein – Playing with Fire
by Barbara Field (from the novel by Mary Shelley)
directed by Rob Melrose
September 15 - October 27, 2018
Adapted by Minnesota playwright Barbara Field from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (celebrating its 200th anniversary this year), this captivating retelling of the classic tale imagines a meeting between a dying Frankenstein and his creation in the Arctic Circle. As Frankenstein prepares to right his greatest wrong by confronting the Creature, scenes from their past are replayed and the line between good and evil is debated, revealing a powerful and agonizing question that interrogates the ethical limits of science and human imagination.