Red Light District presents the world premiere of "The Frankenstein Summer" by Catherine Bush directed by Marc Geller Off Broadway at The Phil Bosakowski Theatre, 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). Previews begin this Wednesday, February 9th. The opening is Sunday, February 13th at 7:00 pm for the limited Off Broadway engagement. The cast features Marc Geller, Tracey Gilbert, Brad Malow, Brendan McMahon, Bill Roulet and Abby Royle. The set design is by Aaron Mastin; costume design is by Dennis Ballard, lighting design by Stephen Arnold with sound design by Shawn Lesmaster.
The Frankenstein Summer" concerns five lovers exploring the heights of passion and the depths of evil. It is the meeting of literary giants George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the summer of 1816 at Byron's magnificent Swiss villa. They experimented with free love and drugs and discovered an evil that threatened their sanity and inspired Mary Shelley's classic novel "Frankenstein".Red Light District was founded in 1988, as a company of actors, directors and designers who, just as the members of that community whose name they've borrowed, are firmly committed to the attractive packaging of pleasurable entertainment, but, unlike those dedicated denizens, have not yet realized a profit from our purveying. Rather, RLD's productions are simply stimulating theatre pieces which offer a variety of challenges to actors, directors and designers ever addicted to honing their craft and hopefully to audiences ever committed to the quest for living theatre -- wherever it may lead them. This will be production number 31 in a very eclectic mix of established, contemporary, classical and original works.Videos