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Fraudulent's 'Frankenstein': Less Than Riveting

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010918
Author:Nelson Pressley

Fraudulent Productions demonstrated a flair for the Gothic a few seasons back with a small-scale, wonderfully dread-filled staging of Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." Lightning isn't striking twice, though; FraudProd's current adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus" is a strangely inanimate show.

Director John Spitzer takes a pretty literal approach in this 80- minute adaptation. As Victor Frankenstein, Ron Woods stands in a narrow spotlight on the small District of Columbia Arts Center stage and delivers gobs of narration. With David Ghatan's dim ...

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