Tickets $20-25, MCA members $16-20, Students $10
(student tickets are subject to availability)
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For mature audiences
Performed in promenade; please call the box office if you require seating for the performance

In an adventurous retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel, acclaimed director and The Hypocrites founder and artistic director Sean Graney combines live performance with the classic 1931 film with Boris Karloff. Graney's four-actor, multimedia, promenade production is timed well for Halloween and places the audience onstage amidst the actors and the film. This inventive play combines several historical versions of the gothic tale to craft a contemporary literary monster that captures the pure horror and chilling philosophy of the creation myth, wherein the creation ultimately destroys its creator.

Read Student Reviews
School of the Art Institute professor Mara Tapp brought students in her New Arts Journalism course to one of the previews for The Hypocrites' Frankenstein. Follow the link to read a few samples of Ms. Tapp's students' reviews.

Artists Up Close

Open Doors: Frankenstein
Tuesday, October 20, 11 am to 2 pm
FREE as part of Free Tuesdays
Museum visitors are invited to drop in to observe the artists at work in the theater on the productions' final stages. Enjoy a rare glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes just days before a show opens to the public. Inventively combining material from film and stage adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 classic Frankenstein into a multimedia theatrical production, the ever-daring Graney guides us into the haunting, proto-Orwellian world Shelley envisioned.

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