How to Make a Monster – why is the Gate Theatre hosting a beatbox gig?

Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster at the Gate Theatre until April 30; Everyman, Cork, June 17 & 18

Energy: The cast of Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster. Photo by Joyce Nicholls

Katy Hayes

Billed as “gig theatre”, this Battersea Arts Centre production is more gig than theatre. It is inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein but bears only tangential connection to that Gothic novel in a few thematic rumblings. Its primary focus is alienation and the internet.