A Metamodern Prometheus
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This event is in the past
Every day, through October 7, 7:30β9:30 pm
Theatre Off Jackson
Chinatown-International District (Seattle)
This is an in-person event
$25 - $50
18+
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The following description comes from the event organizer.
It was a wet and ungenial summer when Mary Shelley devised the idea for Frankenstein. Mary, her husband Percy, and stepsister Claire took a trip to visit Claire's lover, Lord Byron, in Geneva. During the visit, Byron suggested that he, Mary, Percy, and Byron's physician, John Polidori, have a competition to write the best ghost story to pass time stuck indoors. Adapted by co-artistic directors Fosse Jack and Sailor St. Claire, with choreography by Fosse Jack and Trixie Paprika, and direction by Lulu La Lune, A Metamodern Prometheus revisits this summer in Geneva in a literary burlesque where the real and fantastical lives of Shelley, Dr. Frankenstein, and the Creature are stitched together to reveal a terribly beautiful patchwork of existence.