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Performances take place throughout January from 6 - 28th January 2023

Who is the real monster?

Why Not Theatre Company’s in-house Reumert award-winning writer Tanja Mastilo, has transformed Shelley’s captivating Gothic horror tale into a modern drama, where the genders are swapped. In a future dystopian society, complete physical perfection is the dictated norm and all flaws and signs of ageing have been eradicated. Fuelled by raw ambition, Doctor Frankenstein works relentlessly in her laboratory, trying to create a new, immortal species. Her experiment fails and the Creature she gives life to is an old woman – which, in a society that has erased all signs of old age, means only one thing – she’s a MONSTER.

This is not a horror story

FRANKENSTEIN will be performed by Sue Hansen-Styles, Nathan Meister and a new addition to the Why Not Theatre Company team; American actress Jessica O’Hara-Baker. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is written as a compilation of letters, diaries and layered narratives. As an homage to her storytelling, Why Not Theatre Company is creating a performance that brings together video, audio, movement and live performance. Shelley’s classic has become associated with horror and monsters, but that doesn’t quite do Shelley’s tale justice. In her story, the prospect of creating life artificially and the consequences of rejection from society do indeed result in a tragic outcome, but the essence is about loneliness, dangerous knowledge and ambition.

Beauty and the beastly process of ageing

Our society is increasingly obsessed with wrinkles and how best to eradicate them. Women, especially, are under constant pressure to retain their youthful looks for as long as possible. At the same time, billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are falling over each other to invest in projects that develop new technologies to rejuvenate cells and ultimately reverse the ageing process. Will we become an entire population of flawless individuals living in a world with a new class division of the ageing and the non-ageing?

Why Not Theatre Company will be exploring the consequences of extreme worship of youth and beauty, but also of the qualities of ageing and how it reminds us of our most valuable asset: Our humanity.

INFORMATION ABOUT TICKETS:

Tickets have to be booked and paid for in advance of the shows through one of these 2 platforms:

Buy your ticket here: https://www.teaterbilletter.dk/forestillinger/frankenstein

Group bookings can also be made by writing to Teatret ved Sorte Hest at: billet@sortehest.com