#and victor frankenstein as a tortured artist hiding behind the honour of science or whatever.

[podargus-strigoides]

my ideal frankenstein adapation would be an indie, undergound, but still well-funded theatre show. think la mama experimental theatre vibes. (yeah, that doesn't make any sense. well-funded INDIE theatre? a fucking fantasy. hence the Ideal)

it'd have the creature as a stage puppet, much like blackeyed theatre's. but much bigger and more angular, like toby olié's christmas carol puppet

it would cast bobby bradley (again) because he's hand's down my favourite victor.

unlike blackeyed theatre, it would be like. a really weird mostly nonverbal performance to a bunch of songs by igorrr and alamaaliman varsarat. so more of a dance than a play but still not really a dance.

lots of puppetry and non-naturalistic object theatre involved. would be awesome to play with scale, too....the mountain scenes to use the set as a mountain and have a mini puppet victor and creature climbing it. visually a lot like the depraved appetite of tarrare the freak... surgical room would be a great set...

the background would have william kentridge-esque charcoal animations to help with backgrounds and expressions. like in war horse or ubu and the truth commision

the vision is grand and powerful in my mind but my god it would be hell to put together. a man can dream...