The Moore Theater and Manual Cinema: "Frankenstein"

Yesterday I had the pleasure of enjoying two first experiences at once! First, I went to the historical Moore Theater is downtown Seattle. The Moore is a small theater smack in the middle of the city that is more than one hundred years old. It is not big, but it is in perfect shape and looks quite beautiful. I had passed in front of it many times, but yesterday I finally got to enter it, and it didn't disappoint, as you can see in the pictures. In addition, I watched a performance of "Manual Cinema": the concept is to create a movie in real time, resulting in an artistic work that it is somewhere in between a movie and a live play. As you can see in the pictures of the stage, there are a number of musical instruments and various devices to produce the sound effects, some screens big and small that project background images in front of which the actors, the puppets or the shadow puppets play their roles in the story. Hanging over all that there is an actual movie screen, where the movie resulting from the live action underneath is displayed. Like its creators say, it is truly like nothing else you have even seen, so much so that they have toured the world showing their creation. Yesterday they were playing the story of Frankenstein: not only the story itself, but also how Mary Shelley came to it. After the presentation, two of the actors and the director answered questions from the public. It was a really great night, combining a new (to me) and beautiful theater with a unique artistic experience.