Maria Cominis Frankenstein Play Review

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Maria Cominis’ “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, presented by California State University, Fullerton College of the Arts at the Young Theatre was an afternoon of captivating acting. On Sunday, October 1st, 2017 at two in the afternoon the play begun. It was very intense and so many things happened. Robert leaves his sister and sets out on a journey with his crew to find new things about human nature and she is very worried for him, but lets him go. Victor Frankenstein comes home to Geneva from school then leaves all his family behind and goes to work which nobody knows what he does. He then creates a creature made of others human body parts and when he turns it on he is frightened of it and leaves it at his place of work. The creature does horrible …show more content…
It was some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. It really flowed through the whole entire performance. Victor Frankenstein did a really good job at being distressed with school and then going on to creating the creature, but still falling in love with Elizabeth and ends up marrying her. He was always very serious because he was so determined in his findings and he wanted to succeed. Everyone was always there for him like his family, and his future wife Elizabeth. The creature did very well at teaching himself how to speak and how to move like he had never walked before. He also did an impressing job at fighting scenes where he was hurting people when they got aggressive with him. The creatures voice was very barbarian sounding, almost like a caveman would talk. It made it interesting to hear him because not only did he look scary, but his voice made him scarier. The creature also created a little comedy in the play while he was learning new words, listening to when Agatha was talking to Felix and De Lacey about the food and saying “cheese, bread, and butter”. With both actors, even while they didn’t talk everyone knew what they were expressing just through their body language. It was very impressive to watch such professional acting and it had every single person in the audience connected from being serious, funny and horrific all in

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