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Theater

Clive Barker’s “Frankenstein in Love” is a fanciful and rather gory take on the famous story of the scientist who creates monsters out of dead flesh. It’s right up the alley of the Rude Guerrilla Theater Company, which scored a notable artistic success last year with another, somewhat less graphically violent and horrific Barker play, “The History of the Devil.” In “Frankenstein,” the not-so-good doctor has taken up residence in the basement of a Latin American dictator’s presidential palace. There he carries out unspeakable experiments recombining human body parts in unnatural ways. Then Frankenstein’s grandest achievement, a monster of vast intellect and strength, returns to lead a revolution to overthrow the corrupt regime and confront his creator.

* “Frankenstein in Love,” Rude Guerrilla Theater Company’s Empire Theater, 200 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Ends Aug. 12. $12 to $15. (714) 547-4688.