{"id":430768,"date":"2026-10-17T22:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:04:21","slug":"phantasmagoria-does-frankenstein-at-the-dr-phillips-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430768\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantasmagoria does Frankenstein at the Dr. Phillips Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Phantasmagora\"Phantasmagora Credit: Chris Bridges<\/p>\n

One of literature\u2019s (and classic film\u2019s) most famous monsters can trace his origin to a very weird vacation. Phantasmagoria returns for a Halloween shindig with Frankenstein: The Birth of Horror<\/a>, looking back to a stormy 1816 getaway where writers Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Polidori and Claire Clairmont passed the time by trying to frighten one another.<\/p>\n

As popular culture demonstrates, Mary clearly won. And two centuries later, their parlor game is still supplying nightmares. This production builds a whole evening around the stories born that night, including Polidori\u2019s \u201cThe Vampyre,\u201d Byron\u2019s \u201cDarkness\u201d and the titular modern Prometheus. <\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, the troupe\u2019s whole thing is essentially gothic vaudeville<\/a>: dramatic storytelling mixed with theater, puppetry and other old-school stage spectacles. The Orlando company creates a maximalist stage world designed to pull audiences closer to the eerie atmosphere of that fateful 1816 night. Wait until you find out the real monster was a simple quill pen \u2014 and the human brain.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Oct. 16-18, Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., drphillipscenter.org<\/a>, $50-$63.<\/p>\n

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