‘Bloody Poetry’ to relive mythological summer
Margaret BauerIn almost every freshman English class on campus, students are told the seemingly mythological tale of the creation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
On vacation with her lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, as they spent the summer with Lord Byron and his mistress Claire Clairemont, Mary Shelley and many others become involved in writing their own gothic novels, which results in Mary’s own classic tale and another novel, which would later inspire Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
The story of this mythological summer of free love and self-indulgence will be brought to the stage this weekend as the Performing Arts Department brings “Bloody Poetry” to the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theater. The play follows the two couples throughout the summer and the years that follow as they create both friendships and controversy and ponder great concepts of utopian societies and a free-thinking world.
“Bloody Poetry” will be performed Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the Edison Theatre Box Office or at the performance.
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