For the last few years around Halloween, Evergreen Cemetery has presented live theater productions of classic horror works as a way to raise funds. Last year it was Dracula, and this year it was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. After a hostess in period dress greeted us in the cemetery's historic Victorian chapel (above), "Percy Shelley" took the stage to chat about his wife Mary and their relationship. "Mary" then took over, describing her experience of writing Frankenstein. We were then ushered through the basement and onto a flatbed truck for a nighttime hayride through the cemetery, stopping periodically to be entertained by local thespians playing the parts of the characters in the book. (I didn't get many good pictures because we were seated behind a couple of stupid hipsters wearing big hats. Ha! You can see them in these photos.) I'd say that the actor who played Dr. Frankenstein did the best job, but the Frankenstein monster was also very entertaining. Just like last year, I had fun! I can't wait to see what they come up with next year.
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Ha, that sounds like a wery fun, I mean scary, event.
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