When an unexpected death shatters her family, Victoria retreats into the darkest recesses of her psyche in search of a way forward. To find meaning in this impossible loss, she brings a terrible creation to life - one whose existence threatens all hopes for the future. Haunted and hunted at every turn, Victoria must endure a nightmare journey of the soul in a quest for survival. Grapple with the demons of grief and denial in this brilliant reimagining of the 1818 thriller by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. "
A powerful allegory for loss
... As Shelley wrote, 'Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.' Here, that change comes for Victoria, a young university student thrown into a maelstrom of mourning by the death of her father... The truthfulness of Victoria's journey through the stages of grief recasts one of the most well-known monster fables into an authentic and sometimes profound portrait of monstrous loss." -
Chicago Tribune
"
A mesmerizing descent into madness
... In this
Frankenstein
, the heroine, already an outsider before death plunges her into madness, must save herself. And the audience, captivated from beginning to end, can't help but hope she'll see the light." -
Chicago Theater Beat
A brilliant, dark take on the original
... [Kauzlaric] infuses the story with a level of powerful emotion even the original can't lay claim to." -
ChicagoOnstage.com