I was benevolent and good;
misery made me a fiend.
(Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818)

This performance is the prelude to the second movement of our project on monstrosity, which will be entitled ‘Frankenstein (a History of Hate)’ and will debut in 2025.

Daemon is one of the many negative terms by which the creature is referred to in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…
(𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 – 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙨𝙚 – 𝙃𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙪𝙨 – 𝙐𝙜𝙡𝙮 – 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 – 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙩 – 𝘿𝙖𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣 – 𝘼𝙗𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 – 𝙒𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 – 𝘼𝙗𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 – 𝘿𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 – 𝙊𝙙𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣 – 𝙋𝙤𝙤𝙧, 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙘𝙝 – 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙪𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙬𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙘𝙝 – 𝙃𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 – 𝙐𝙜𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙘𝙝 – 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙- 𝙈𝙮 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙮 – 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 – 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 – 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙… )
The second Act will deal with that terrible click that turns love into hatred, benevolence into violence; of that jamming of the love mechanism that causes a reversal with irreversible consequences. It will focus on the ‘becoming evil’ of the creature: on how a being without identity, without history, alone like a deer, chased, makes a world of its own and rebels.
In delving into the origins of hatred and the inestimable pain inevitably connected with it – because he who hates is never happy – Shelley traces a new geography of terror, one that resonates all too strongly today, in these dark times…