Archive for March, 2014

Frankenstein is now online!

Posted on March 24th, 2014 by Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech Theatre’s Frankenstein interprets Mary Shelley’s original text with an alchemic mixture of puppets, shadows, actors, illustration, and post-production magic in a seven episode portrayal of this classic tragedy. This is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between 18 high school students and 8 professional artists…and the first episode is now live on […]

Four Quartets at Queen’s University

Posted on March 14th, 2014 by Figures of Speech

Artistic Director John Farrell heads off next week to Ontario, Canada, for a presentation of Four Quartets on March 17. At the invitation of Queen’s University Professor Gabrielle McIntire, author of Modernism, Memory and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, John will recite the four-poem cycle of Eliot’s masterwork, and then meet with graduate and […]