Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Mar 24, 2011 by Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.		Post: 1

Johnny Lee Miller's Creature - was extraordinary! Child-like and helpless, dribbling and dangerous through to eloquent, taunting and criminal. Cumberbatch's Frankenstein was brilliant and deranged and tormented. I thought the entire production was a joy to watch - the Nat's sets and set-changes - with bedrooms and glaciers sinking into the floor or rising into the ceiling was eerily magical, to the thousand-light-bulb lightning bolt. The distillation of Shelly's novel opens with the creature spilling naked from some sort of fleshy womb and crawling about on the floor groaning and Victor terrified, clawing at the walls abandoning the wretch which then pursures him for the next 2 hours. What a great night out at the cine-theatre!




http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/63286/productions/frankenstein.html

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Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Mar 24, 2011 by (Mahatma) 2legs - Resident loon and Cloud Cuckoolander -- Bliss is folding towels. This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 2

ooo... This is the one where the main characters switch the main rolls from night to night isn't it? I heard it get mixed reviews on BBC R4, but it sounded very good to me....

Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Mar 24, 2011 by Taff Agent of kaos This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 3

now you have to go tommorrow and see the roles reversed!!!!

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Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Mar 24, 2011 by Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 4

Just great entertainment all round.

What's the phrase?

Worth the price of admission!

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Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Mar 25, 2011 by parrferris This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 5

But is it worth the price of admission twice, which is presumably the idea?

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Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Mar 25, 2011 by HonestIago This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 6

I saw it last week at a similar screening in Bradford, with the roles reversed. It was fantastic and I feel similarly to Clive in that I can't imagine the roles being reversed, which makes me want to see how they do it.

Loving the National Theatre Live programme, after Frankenstein me and my mate went straight out and bought tickets to the next one in June.

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Subject: Come, Scientist - Destroy your Creation!!! Posted Apr 5, 2012 by Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 7

I'm taking a works outing to see the encore performances of this in the summer. This time around I will be seeing BC as the creature and JLM as Victor.

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