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Posted by DCA Theater on August 27, 2010 in July-December 2010 Season, Hideous Progeny
August 26 - September 26
Storefront Theater
It was a dark and stormy night in a house by the lake, when Mary Shelley famously took up her host Lord Byron’s challenge to write a terrifying story and created Frankenstein, one of the most famous novels in the Western canon. Witty, salacious, and often melodramatic, Emily Dendinger’s world premiere play directed by Jessica Hutchinson depicts the larger than life Romantic figures as the normal teenagers they were – overeducated, egotistical, and ready to change the world.
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Comments (2)
Zac Thompson of TimeOut Chicago calls Hideous Progeny “4 out of 5 stars… A seamless blend of fact and fantasy, Progeny accomplishes for the Romantics what Tom Stoppard did for Elizabethans in Shakespeare in Love…”: Click here to read the full review.
Monica Westin of Flavorpill says “Dendinger’s dialogue is inventive and Stoppard-esque in her vivid, updated reimagining…Jessica Hutchinson’s direction is equally fresh…while actors bring the energy and claws appropriate to the party of narcissistic, brilliant poets that the Romantics were.”: Click here to read the full review.