Bohemian Theatre Ensemble
presents
Playing with Fire
(after Frankenstein)
by Barbara Field
Directed by Peter Marston Sullivan

BoHo continues its 5th season by exploring a literary classic from a different perspective. As a company, BoHo strives to illuminate the classics of years past and make them accessible to today's audiences. Through the beauty and intimacy of its writing, Barbara Fields' Playing with Fire (after Frankenstein) fulfills this goal by bringing back to life the tragic tale of one of literature's most notorious creatures in a most unique way.

An exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt.

As their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil-culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?"

Opening: Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 8:00
Running: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00
Sundays at 2:00

Tickets: Call the box office at 866-811-4111
or at the Boho Theater On Line