CREATURE: A Puppet Frankenstein Adaptation, was an hour-long reimagining of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, premiering in 2018 to coincide with the novel’s 200th anniversary. Recipient of a 2018 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant, CREATURE depicted the struggle with human dignity, predetermination and moral choice. Based on the few chapters written from Creature’s perspective, we strove to restore the intelligence, grace, and violence of Shelley’s original vision. At the same time, ours was an unconventional retelling. Conveyed largely without dialogue or exposition, our concept instead trusted expressive puppetry and live musical accompaniment to tell the story, evoke emotions, and create powerful moments of fragility, fear, cruelty, and connection.
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“The face is there forever, hideous and magnificent, lower jaw protruding, shoving out a row of yellowed, erratic teeth. Its eyes: one sky blue and wandering, the other blood orange, bulging and wild. A gaping crimson wound curves over the skull.”
— Anne Marshall, Louisville Magazine
“[It] is a superb example of what is possible when we worry less about labeling and just concentrate on creation. Creature is beautiful, sublime, challenging, exhilarating, and exactly the kind of risk-taking theatre we need to encourage in Louisville.”
— Keith Waits, Arts-Louisville.com
