"I'm quite a fan of Gothic horror movies. As a young teenager, I experienced the gloriously Technicolour-saturated world of the Hammer movies late on Saturday night TV when no one was keeping an eye on me. A star of several of those films, Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell' (with Peter Cushing) and Taste the Blood of Dracula' (with Christopher Lee), was the iconic British actress Madeline Smith."
"Smith's career also encompassed being Roger Moore's first Bond Girl' in Live and Let Die, comedy with The Two Ronnies, a whole host of early British TV satire and being leading lady for Alec Guinness in the original West End production of Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and for Frankie Howerd in The Fly And The Fox. For FRANKENSTEIN UNCHAINED! Madeline Smith has collaborated with Jason Frederick, a Canadian composer of music for films and television (Disney's 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure, Top Gear USA)."
"The show is an interactive trip thru the world of Mary Shelley's classic story, featuring a new original soundtrack, performed live to picture' and with Smith narrating. If you don't know the Phoenix Arts Club, it's a bohemian basement with cabaret-style seating and shows that sits underneath the Phoenix Theatre on the Charing Cross Road. The club was decked out in full Halloween garb, with scary masks, hanging cobwebs, and a glitter ball, all adding to the atmosphere."
An affectionate account recalls youthful exposure to Hammer Gothic horror and highlights Madeline Smith's career spanning Hammer films, Bond, television satire, and West End theatre. Madeline Smith narrates FRANKENSTEIN UNCHAINED!, a live-to-picture performance with a new original soundtrack composed and performed by Jason Frederick. The production recreates Mary Shelley's world with atmospheric Halloween staging in the Phoenix Arts Club's bohemian basement cabaret. Jason Frederick introduces the Frankenstein film franchise history from 1910 onwards, covering James Whale's 1930s Karloff film and detailing composers' techniques, especially James Bernard, who scored many Hammer films. The evening blends film history, live score, and theatrical narration.
Read at www.london-unattached.com
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