Episode 617. Remy Bumppos Frankenstein
Nick Sandys is the artistic director of Chicago\u2019s Remy Bumppo Theatre and is currently playing both Victor Frankenstein and the Creature in the Nick Dear adaptation of Mary Shelley\u2019s classic novel, which opens this week and runs through November 17, 2018,\xa0now also celebrating its 200th anniversary (he alternates roles with Greg Matthew Anderson). Nick talks about the power of this tale of monstrousness and how it fits into Remy Bumppo\u2019s mission of great language driving great ideas. Featuring ways in which Shelley\u2019s novel continues ideas expressed by Shakespeare in The Tempest, early modern analogues to rap battles, how one can highlight (and quite possibly confuse) certain issues, the precision with which one handles cultural negotiation, how the use of language \u2014 even in Shakespeare \u2014 tells you how a scene must be staged, how literature can also be a verb, how monsters are not born but made, and how one addresses the ultimate question: Who, really, is the monster? A star is shorn! (Length 22:42)