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High Voltage

A reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein penned by Robin Glover

It’s dangerous to play with electricity or so they say, but that’s how Victor Frankenstein gets his kicks. He doesn’t care if it’s AC or DC as long as it delivers enough of a jolt. And it takes quite a jolt to put some life back into the dead!

It’s high jinks and even higher jolts all the way when Victor journeys to London to create a bride for his monster. No easy task when the groom looks like he stepped out of a Hammer Horror movie! But failure isn’t an option or Victor and his fiancee Elizabeth will find themselves on a mortuary slab. An acute shortage of female cadavers, a pair of incompetent grave-robbers and a series of shocks of the non-electrical kind, keep Victor in a spin right up to the final curtain,

Casting: 4 Women 5 Men (with doubling)

High Voltage is available from amazon.co.uk priced £5.00 https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Voltage-reimaging-Shelleys-Frankenstein/dp/1916108296/ref=sr_1

Note: Robin Glover is a pen name I use when writing adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and mashups of gothic classics.

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Featured Painting: Scaramouche Jones

I was inspired to paint this after seeing Pete Postlethwaite perform the role of the eponymous clown in this one man show at Ludlow Assembly Rooms. It’s based on a publicity still for the show, but I decided to heighten the drama of the picture by adding a stronger background. Coincidently, a year or so later I found a buyer for the painting at the very same assembly rooms.

Scaramouche, a roguish clown character of the Italian Commedia dell’arte, also features in the popular song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. The name was originally that of a stock character who featured in 17th century Italian farce, in which another regular character named Harlequin would beat him for his bragging and for his cowardice.

Original artwork: oils on canvas copyright Chris Niblock

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