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>> The Chicago based production company Manual Cinema is bringing its re-imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Back to the Studebaker Theater just in time for Halloween, combining elements of Shelley's own life and the classic tale the adaptation brings to the stage ideas about empathy, death and technological advancements.

The show combines puppetry.

Live sound effects music and cinematic techniques to bring the production to life.

Frankenstein continues >> Have a lot of symbolic power in our culture.

Humankind is created lots of technologies this lost control of.

>> Right now developing a technology artificial intelligence since the 19th century.

At whatever historical urine.

>> Readers of town residents and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and felt like it spoke to their time.

I think it continues to speak to our time it was also a story that has been adopted in almost every year cinematic history.

like the old Thomas very early silent films where that picture comes out of that to the James Real.

like new century adaptations.

So we're creating the Keys.

>> Our name is manual cinema.

And what we really try to do is to make movies live in front of the audience's eyes using very simple materials.

Me like looked back at all of those pieces remix to that with some of our own ideas, you know, living in the 21st century like ideas about robotics engineering to create our it's alive sequence or a creation sequence for the creature.

Mary Shelley become sort of a framing story for telling this version of Frankenstein shortly before she had written her novel.

Frankenstein.

>> She'd given birth to a daughter who had died in infancy.

And in her journal, she wrote that she had this night near of bringing her dead child back to life.

And we thought that was so poignant, just the act of creating anything like whether it's a baby or like rather, it's like public show like whether it's like a piece of rating or like anything you're trying to like out of yourself like into the world is like.

>> Extraordinary and beautiful.

But then off thinking like feel like friend in your own lives.

>> When you come to see a manual cinema show, you have the option of either watching the final product on like a big movie theater screen above the stage.

>> Or you can look below there.

You can see all the puppeteers and all the musicians and performers >> making the work.

We don't hide any of stage at from you.

Any of the special effects.

You can see how or making the projections making the puppetry.

>> In real time, there's no wrong way to watch the show.

It's marriage of process.

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