A Differently Chilling ‘Frankenstein’

When Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater does an outreach tour, the theater truly reaches out. Tonight’s 8 o’clock performance of the Guthrie’s staging of “Frankenstein” at UC San Diego’s Mandeville Auditorium will visit 34 states over five months.

Playwright Barbara Field, commissioned by the Guthrie, has written more of a “response” to Mary Shelley’s 19th-Century Gothic novel than an adaptation. The play is set at the North Pole and uses flashbacks to plumb the relationships between the young scientist, Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation, here named Adam.

Tickets are $15, $10 for students, $12 for UCSD faculty, staff and senior citizens.