About the Project
Frankenstein: A Ghost Story is a live, intimate, and unsettling theatrical event—part adaptation, part poltergeist, part confession.
A Storyteller stands before us to perform an adaptation of Frankenstein he once created and performed as a duet with a Musician. Together, they traveled, told stories, and made a modest life bringing classic stories like this one to life. But something happened a couple of years ago. Now, he’s attempting to perform this “duet” alone.
At first, the evening feels familiar: a single performer the promise of a classic tale retold. As the Storyteller guides us through Shelley’s novel—Victor Frankenstein’s obsession, creation, abandonment, and reckoning—cracks begin to form. Sound cues misfire. Old recordings bleed through. Lights behave strangely.
The absence of the Musician becomes impossible to ignore. And slowly, another story emerges.
As Victor’s creation takes shape, so does the Storyteller’s grief. As the Creature learns what it means to be cast out, the Storyteller confronts what it means to survive someone you made art—and a life—with. The play becomes a dialogue between past and present, creator and creation, memory and guilt. What begins as a literary adaptation transforms into something far more dangerous and alive: a performance haunted by what’s missing. It’s about what happens when we try to move forward without truly reckoning with the past.
Shelley’s language and themes are honored deeply, but refracted through a contemporary lens of loss, technology, recorded memory, and live performance unraveling in real time.
It uses live music, looping, sound design, and practical stage magic to blur the line between rehearsal and ritual, story and reality.
Come for Frankenstein. Stay for the haunting.
Production Team
