A Metamodern Prometheus at Theater Off Jackson

It was a wet and ungenial summer when Mary Shelley devised the idea for Frankenstein.

Mary, her husband Percy, and stepsister Claire took a trip to

visit Claire's lover, Lord Byron, in Geneva. During the visit, Byron suggested that he,

Mary, Percy, and Byron's physician, John Polidori, have a competition to write the

best ghost story to pass time stuck indoors.

Adapted by co-artistic directors Fosse Jack and Sailor St. Claire, with choreography by

Fosse Jack and Trixie Paprika, and direction by Lulu La Lune, A Metamodern

Prometheus revisits this summer in Geneva in a literary burlesque where the real and

fantastical lives of Shelley, Dr. Frankenstein, and the Creature are stitched together to

reveal a terribly beautiful patchwork of existence.