National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

This is Danny Boyle’s celebrated 2011 National Theatre production, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. Both actors later jointly won the Evening Standard Best Actor award for these performances.

OCTOBER 3rd Benedict

Cumberbatch as Dr.

Frankenstein and Jonny Lee

Miller as the Creature.

OCTOBER 10th Showing will have Jonny Lee Miller as Dr.

Frankenstein and Benedict

Cumberbatch as the Creature.

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Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form,

Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker.

Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific