Frankenstein, a stage adaptation produced by Colony High School, was directed by Brian Mead, a teacher of language arts, drama, journalism and digital communications. The genre of this comedy was more horror and romance than anything else. I attended with my friend and my father on November 16, 2013. It all begins when Victor Frankenstein becomes fascinated by electricity and becomes convinced that he can recreate life. He has two men pick up a recently dead body to bring back. Along the way, it is revealed that Victor will soon get married to his love, Elizabeth. Once the men deliver the body to Victor, he wastes almost no time. Victor takes Henry to his laboratory to help him bring the dead back to life. After a few moments of waiting and preparing with electricity, nothing happened. Victor gave up his idea, with Henry's conviction, and left. While he is gone, the corpse is struck by lightning, causing it to come back to life. When Victor returns, he sees his creation and is more than excited. He carefully examines the now breathing corpse and talks to Henry, who alerts Victor to the side, about ideas and ways to experiment. The corpse lashes out when Henry brings the light closer to him and ends up falling out the window, never to be seen by Victor or Henry for many weeks afterward. The corpse, which I will now call Frankenstein, finds a blind old woman named Delacy. Since she is blind, she feels no terror or shock when speaking to him and instead treats him as if he were a normal person. She gives him food and warmth from a blanket and also teaches him a few words. There is a small time jump and when he is brought back, Delacy has taught Frankenstein to read, speak and understand more things than him... middle of the paper... their lines as well as their actions and they all spoke clearly . Everyone used great emotion, even though Victor won by far, as I mentioned, and they even used great body language to give more meaning and feeling to their words and actions. I would rate this comedy nine and a half stars out of ten because, while it was truly wonderful, there were some things left unsaid. All the actors and actresses were spectacular in everything they did, although a few small changes to the script would have made it slightly easier to understand. For the most part, the characters made sense and the events that followed made even more. All in all, Frankenstein was a wonderful work that I had the honor of seeing before it was gone forever. I look forward to seeing more of the Drama Club's future performances in the hopes that they will all be as good, or better, than their production of Frankenstein.
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