House Of Frankenstein

by Martin Downing

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Northern Theatre Studio2
Feb 8-10 1991

Baron Frankenstein invites a collection of monsters and misfits, including Dracula and the Wolfman, to his castle claiming to have a cure for their conditions. But The Phantom Of The Opera has other ideas in this fast paced comedy chiller.

Cast

Baron Frankenstein Ray Rumkee
Ygor Dave Round
The Monster Dave Barber
Frau Lurker Val Howell
Elizabeth Frankenstein Joanne Leach
Harry Talbot Glenn Webster
Ilona Bathory Sharon Rogers
The Phantom Peter Glendenen
Count Dracula Brian Caine
Isabel Channing Helen Robinson

Directed by Ray Rumkee
"When you hear the midnight hour, you will feel the Phantom's power"

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow...  We opened during the worst weather of the year. Fifteen hardy souls braved the raging blizzard to come and see us on that first night. Spring Street Theatre closed down for the weekend. We stayed open and played to full houses for the next two nights, even having to put in extra seating and turn people away! Take that, Hull Truck!

The Audience Won't Notice  One of the Baron's gruesome props was a rubber hand in a tall jar of green liquid. The hand nestled serenely at the bottom of the jar until the last night when, during one of Count Dracula’s almost interminable interludes of tortured self-examination, it rose slowly to the top of the jar, frightening the cast and cracking up the audience. Although after the performance some of them asked how we'd managed the trick of getting the hand to rise on cue!

Quote, Unquote  Being upstaged by the hand! Our stalwart audiences who turned up with a blizzard outside. My first bad girl part and lots of fun Sharon
This one was hilarious, with all the weird and wonderful characters getting together. And this was the one with the amazing "hand in bottle" trick that everyone thought was deliberate
Ailsa
Spine tingling and side splitting. Glenn's transformation into the werewolf made the similar scene in American Werewolf In London look really shit
Ray

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