{"id":16438,"date":"2018-09-26T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16438"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:51:59","slug":"frankenstein-explores-toxic-masculinity-and-fear-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/09\/26\/frankenstein-explores-toxic-masculinity-and-fear-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein<\/em> explores toxic masculinity and fear of death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe monster asks, \u2018Are you a good man?\u2019 and Victor says, \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 and the monster says, \u2018Are you a good man? It\u2019s a simple question,\u2019 and Victor says, \u2018I don\u2019t know?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Director Ian Case explains that this scene reflects the very essence of the much-loved classic Frankenstein<\/i>, which he and his team have brought to the stage at Theatre Inconnu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis adaptation of Frankenstein<\/i> is really about Victor and his story,\u201d says Case. \u201cWhat motivates him? Why he is so obsessed with this idea of bringing the dead back to life? I\u2019ve always been fascinated with the anti-hero, like the Batman character. He works alongside the police, but in many incarnations Batman has been very much the outsider.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frankenstein<\/em> is back in Victoria, this time at Theatre Inconnu (photo by Ian Case).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the same way, Victor Frankenstein is very much the outsider. Case explains that this play really investigates Frankenstein\u2019s loneliness and how he pushes people away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe pushes his father away. He stands apart from his fianc\u00e9e, who he deeply loves but he doesn\u2019t know how to communicate with. Even his best friend Clerval\u2014he clearly loves Clerval and Clerval clearly loves him, but they don\u2019t know how to communicate,\u201d says Case. \u201cThere is a lot of male energy in Frankenstein<\/i> and I think Mary Shelley spent a great deal of time around men and recognized it. Lord Byron was a scourge on Europe and there certainly is a bit of Byron in both Victor and the monster. I think this is partly her commentary on toxic masculinity, to a certain extent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Case says he\u2019s excited to direct a piece of such quality. He says that over the course of his research into the book, he grew a special respect for young authors like Shelley, who was only 20 at the time of the book\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something incredibly brave about the work of young artists,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause they are unfettered by convention and unfettered by those sort of voices that say, \u2018You can\u2019t do that, you shouldn\u2019t be telling this story, you should be telling it that way.\u2019 They just sit down, and they write it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The piece will be performed in the round, with the audience in a circle around the stage. Case hopes this setting will provide for an intimate performance, as well as the opportunity to give the audience a few surprises. He says that everyone should be able to get something out of this timeless tale.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt taps into our fear, our fear of death, our fascination with what lies after,\u201d says Case. \u201cAs technology continues to increase and we have access to more information and opportunities, at what point do we make the decision to prolong life beyond the natural realm? The basic question of making extreme choices and living with consequences\u2014those things never go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frankenstein
\n<\/i>Until Saturday, October 13
\n$10 to $24, Theatre Inconnu
\ntheatreinconnu.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe monster asks, \u2018Are you a good man?\u2019 and Victor says, \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 and the monster says, \u2018Are you a good man? It\u2019s a simple question,\u2019 and Victor says, \u2018I don\u2019t know?\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Director Ian Case explains that this scene reflects the very essence of the much-loved classic Frankenstein, which he and his team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-26-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16440,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16438\/revisions\/16440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}