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Performance

VenueHackney Empire
Also: Bullion Room Theatre, Acorn Theatre
TownOuter London
CountyGreater London
From17th January 2020
Opened25th January 2020
To16th February 2020
WhenTue-Fri 19:30. Sat Double Bill 14:30, 19:30. Sun Double Bill 13:00, 18:30
Hackney Empire (V309)
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  • Date of change: 22 May 19 - T01686268230

Frankenstein - Double bill with Dracula

Work:: Frankenstein (S01857250449)


Book by Mary Shelley

Production:: Double bill with Dracula (T01686268230)

Using all the entertainment fireworks of Regency and Victorian theatre - music, comedy, drama, tableaux, song and captivating story-telling - the earliest Fright Night Frisson will be brought back to vivid theatrical life. From 1823, a world of romance and revolution, came the first adaptation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's thrilling tale of technology gone beyond human control. The first adaptation, named Presumption: Or The Fate of Frankenstein, by Richard Brinsley Peake, was first performed at the English Opera House. One of the non -patent theatres, the producers were obliged to include pantomime, music and spectacle to obtain a licence, and so the play remains a thrilling piece of story-telling and a fascinating insight into the theatre of the Regency. Mary Shelley declared herself to be "much amused, & it appeared to excite a breatheless eagerness in the audience".
Company Classic Spring
Director Dominic Dromgoole

Listing:: L61673644




Double bill with Dracula

Using all the entertainment fireworks of Regency and Victorian theatre - music, comedy, drama, tableaux, song and captivating story-telling - the earliest Fright Night Frisson will be brought back to vivid theatrical life. From 1823, a world of romance and revolution, came the first adaptation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's thrilling tale of technology gone beyond human control. The first adaptation, named Presumption: Or The Fate of Frankenstein, by Richard Brinsley Peake, was first performed at the English Opera House. One of the non -patent theatres, the producers were obliged to include pantomime, music and spectacle to obtain a licence, and so the play remains a thrilling piece of story-telling and a fascinating insight into the theatre of the Regency. Mary Shelley declared herself to be "much amused, & it appeared to excite a breatheless eagerness in the audience".

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