In Shooting Star, ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria
Trumbull becomes embroiled in controversy at the community
theater on Martha's Vineyard. The new artistic director
has announced plans to replace local amateur talent with
off-Island professionals, and the cast and crew react murderously.
Victoria intended the theater's current production, her
adaptation of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, to debunk
the common farcical movie-monster interpretation by returning
to Shelley's original serious commentary on the the Industrial
Revolution. However, after the night of the dress rehearsal,
Victoria loses control over the production, and the drama
begins to take a strange course... Read
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