FRANKENSTEIN RISES at Korda!
To celebrate the Halloween season, Korda Artistic Productions stages the original science fiction horror story Frankenstein. Adapted by Austin Tichenor and based on the seminal novel by Mary Shelly.
After helplessly witnessing a horrible death, brilliant young Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with the question, “What makes the machine go?” His ambition borders on madness as he works to revive dead tissue, and once he succeeds in resurrecting a dead man, Victor realizes that he has never thought beyond this goal: now that the Creature lives, what is Victor to do with him? His lack of foresight brings death and terror to all those beloved around him.
Dalton Mugridge plays the tortured genius Victor Frankenstein. Abbey Lee Hallet is Victor’s neglected fiancée Elizabeth Lavenza, and Boris Gatackic is his devoted friend Henry Clerval. Ren Brownlie plays nursemaid Justine Moritz, and 10-year-old Thomas Preney plays her charge William Frankenstein. David Sivak is The Creature.
Rounding out the cast are Chris Lanspeary as Baron Frankenstein and the old blind hermit; Mark Worsley as Captain Robert Walton; Noah Ball and Kai Dutton as grave diggers; Jamie Taylor as the student Gustav; Kim Courtis, Camryn Kinglsey and Roula Khayat as various townspeople; and Georgie Savoie as Mary Shelly.
Korda’s Resident Director Jeff Marontate helms the production.The incredible talents of Jay Stapleton and Mark Worsley create the set and its laboratory’s special effects. Riley Campbell stage manages the madness, and Korda founder Tracey Atin is the show’s producer.
Of his text, Tichenor said, “Through well-fought debate and action, I wanted to combine the intellectual satisfaction of Shelley’s novel with the fun and thrills of a really scary horror story. In other words (to use a little Hollywood pitch-speak), it’s George Bernard Shaw meets Stephen King.”
Frankenstein opens a 3-week run on October 25, with performances also running October 26, 27, 31. As well as November 1, 2, 7, 8 & 9, 2024. All performances are at The KordaZone Theatre, at 2520 Seminole Street in Windsor. Tickets are available at the door, one hour before performances, or online
