Seattleplays.com review By Tom Scanlon
							Frankenocchio Sept. 23-Oct. 16   Empty Space Theater
	All the cleverness that this blenderization of Pinocchio and Frankenstein can muster is done in by distressingly lackadaisical pacing and a repetitive, uninspired script.      But those puppets! Brian Kooser's huge, stringless creations are extraordinary, and deftly handled by a team of puppeteers: Kooser, writer Stephanie Timm,  David Goldstein, Keiko Ichinose, Roy Stanton. The puppet wranglers and dressed in dark, head-to-toe outfits, keeping them for the most part out of focus. (A really brilliant effect would have been for the puppets themselves to have lights, which would have completely hidden the humans.)      While writer Timm and director Scot Auguston quickly run out of originality, the live music from Circus Contraption is consistently unpredictable and excellent. Vocalist Sari Breznau (pictured, above) steals this show, with just the right comic touches -- and terrific range, from sexy ballads to moving melodrama.      The band rocks, the show rots. Attempting twisted humor, it is all too often scatalogical, cliched and just not very funny. This story about a puppet who loses his head (or, better put, loses his body) really is headless: all torso, no mind.