Also a fair point.
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Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2018 7:04:29 pm PDT #1776 of 3463
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-t - Oct 22, 2018 7:37:09 pm PDT #1777 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Cumbercreature seen.
I am not sure what I think.
Except that was a very male production.
DebetEsse - Oct 22, 2018 7:45:24 pm PDT #1778 of 3463
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm sitting in the theater (alone, sadly) to see it again. I love it dearly, but it is definitely sorely missing female input (other than Shelley herself, who sadly didn't get to go to production meetings).
-t - Oct 22, 2018 8:16:23 pm PDT #1779 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I think that's why it struck me, I was all "woohoo, Mary Shelley" and then the pre-play thingy shows me two male actors and a male writer and a male director and I was just...oh, right, this is normal. Somewhat deflating.
My theater was not completely empty, but pretty close. Made it weird to have the audience noise on the soundtrack, but otherwise kind of nice.
Atropa - Oct 22, 2018 8:44:51 pm PDT #1780 of 3463
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Except that was a very male production.
You are not wrong.
P.M. Marc - Oct 23, 2018 6:25:57 am PDT #1781 of 3463
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I love it, but it is strikingly male, though far closer to the original than most interpretations.
-t - Oct 23, 2018 7:24:36 am PDT #1782 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's too long since I read the original, I don't feel like I can have a worthwhile reaction to this interpretation without remembering it better.
Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2018 10:15:19 am PDT #1783 of 3463
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Katie and I saw both of them back to back. We were so blown away by the performances and the interpretation, we didn't really talk about the female representation, beyond that it was, as you say, very much a male perspective. I don't recall a Strong Female Character in the original, but it has been a couple decades since I read it. I wonder if Mary Shelley was making a bit of a point, mostly leaving female influence out of her Men Ain't Gods manifesto.
-t - Oct 23, 2018 2:55:35 pm PDT #1784 of 3463
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I was thinking about how Dracula is so very Other and how Victor Frankenstein very much is not. He's a young, wealthy, white man with gobs of education and opportunity. And the creature, well, he's maybe more Uncanny Valley than Other.
It's only a half-formed thought, but I feel like I'm almost on to something.
Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2018 3:04:15 pm PDT #1785 of 3463
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In the book, the creature is philosophical and thoughful, even with Abby Normal's brain. (Brain from a hung murderer, wasn't it?)