CoHo Productions presents
BEETHOVEN & CHOPIN MEET THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Created by Philip Cuomo with the CoHo Clown CoHort
January 25 – February 1, 2020
Sliding scale tickets, $5 – $30
The classical music/monster mash(up) you never knew you needed.
Step into the lab… What happens when you take Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel Frankenstein — mix elements from James Whale’s cinematic interpretation and Abbot & Costello’s shtick — then introduce classical music legends Beethoven and Chopin — add a healthy sprinkling of Romanticism —and distill it all with the pure physical comedy of clowning? Sounds like an experiment for the CoHo Clown CoHort! The ensemble that brought you Philip’s Glass Menagerie and Witch Hunt return for a third consecutive year of Fertile Ground mischief when Beethoven & Chopin Meet the Bride of Frankenstein!
Presented as part of the 2020 Fertile Ground Festival of New Work
BEETHOVEN AND CHOPIN MEET THE BRIDE OFE FRANKENSTEIN
Runtime: 1 hour
CAST
Emily Newton …………………….. Beethoven
Sasha Blocker …………………….. Bride of Frankenstein
Emily Eisele………………………….Chopin
Anthony Amista……………………Everybody Else
Clifton Holznagel…………………Actor
Jeff Desautels……………………..Actor
PRODUCTION TEAM
Allison Johnson…………………..Costume Designer
Kevin Young………………………..Lighting Designer
Jamie Flynn…………………………Sound Designer
Megan Thorpe…………………….Stage Manager
Morgan Clark-Gaynor………….Content Collaborator/Production Design and Fabrication
Jake Simonds………………………Content Collaborator
ABOUT THE COHO CLOWN COHORT
Supported by a Creative Heights grant from the Oregon Community Foundation, the CoHo Clown CoHort was created to cultivate an experimental ensemble of clown performers and contextualize the value of clowning in the modern theatre landscape. Previous work includes Philip’s Glass Menagerie, an adaptation of the Tennessee Williams classic exploring whether or not an emotionally intimate story can be told truthfully and powerfully through the extreme physical expression of clowning; and Witch Hunt, inspired by the Puritan work ethic, maybe a famous play, and the thrilling boundary between freedom and repression.