REVIEW: Frankenstein, National Theatre at Home Online ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews the National Theatre’s Frankenstein starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller rotating the lead roles online.
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REVIEW: Frankenstein, Derby Theatre (UK Tour) ✭✭✭
Gary Stringer reviews the Frankenstein UK Tour which is currently playing at Derby Theatre. Full tour schedule through BritishTheatre.com
Regional UK Theatre looking forward 2018
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
REVIEW: Frankenstein, Wilton’s Music Hall ✭✭✭✭
George Fletcher embodies the Creature with sinuous movement and anguished expression with no need for extra make-up.
National Theatre Live Encore Screenings of Frankenstein
National Theatre Live’s thrilling broadcast of Frankenstein returns to cinemas for a limited time, due to unprecedented audience demand. Danny Boyle’s award-winning production of Frankenstein returns to cinemas from 30 October, due to popular demand. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller – who jointly won the Evening Standard and Olivier Award for Best Actor – alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature in Nick Dear’s play, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Both versions of Frankenstein will be screened in a special two-part presentation in over 550 cinemas around the UK and worldwide from 30 October. The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe … Read more
