On
Sunday, October 21st at 2pm slt, Fantasy Faire Radio and Seanchai Library will
present Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, specially adapted for radio and
live performance in six voices, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
novel's original publication. The two-hour performance will take place
live at this year's iteration of "Haunted Holly Kai" high above the Blake Sea
Da5id
Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Zander Greene, Shandon Loring, Elrik Merlin, and Caledonia
Skytower will come together to present the script adapted by Skytower and Abbot
from Shelley's original novel. The performance, running just under two
hours, will be live on stream at "Haunted Holly Kai: featuring
Frankenstein" and simultaneously broadcast on Fantasy Faire Radio.
Residents can teleport to the performance from the Park's Information Center
The
novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was written by English
author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young
scientist who creates a human-like creature in an unorthodox scientific
experiment while still a student at University in Ingolstadt. Shelley started
writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was
published anonymously in London
on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second
edition, published in France
in 1823.
Famously
Mary, her lover and future husband Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron decided to
have a competition to see who could write the best horror story while staying
at Byron's rented home, Villa Diodati, near the shores of Lake
Geneva . After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist
who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved
into the novel's story. It has had a considerable influence in literature and
popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and
plays.
In 1931,
Universal Pictures released Frankenstein: The Man Who Made The Monster
directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the Creature (now
"Monster"). The screenplay was based on Peggy Webling's stage
play Frankenstein which was loosely based on Shelley's novel. It is here
that the Frankenstein as the green-skinned, bolt-headed, mad scientist
experiment-gone-wrong took shape, forming the popular culture version that
pervaded the 20th century.
"Haunted
Holly Kai: featuring Frankenstein" will pay tribute to both the original
novel and its film adaptations with an outdoor amphitheater for the novel's
presentation and other planned events, and a towering castle featuring a mad
scientist lab created by Stranger Nightfire. Residents are encouraged to
explore both the castle and the outdoor areas.
This year's "Haunted Holly Kai" will open October 21st and
remain open through Halloween.
About
Fantasy Faire Radio
Since
2014, Fantasy
Faire Radio has been a special event station,
sponsored by Radio Riel in its role as Media Partner in Fantasy Faire, the
annual celebration of fantasy art, writing, design and creativity that raises
money every year in the virtual world of Second Life for the American Cancer
Society’s Relay For Life, supporting cancer research, caregivers and cancer
sufferers all over the world. In 2017, FFR began broadcasting 24/7, as a full‐time
Internet radio service. Listeners can tune in by opening https://radioriel.org
in their internet browser and choosing Fantasy Faire Radio in the left hand
sidebar, by opening http://fantasy.radioriel.org in a network audio player.
About
the Seanchai Library
Seanchai
Library (Shawn-a-kee, which means "Storyteller" in Irish.) was founded
in March of 2008 in Second Life. The program remains dedicated to promoting the
power of stories to transform and inspire through live voice presentations:
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life and other virtual
worlds." http://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/
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