National Theatre Live Frankenstein Encore

[pauljeremiah]

Went to see this yesterday at my local cinema, just wondering if anyone else has seen it?

Trailer

The version I saw had Cumberbatch as the Creature and Cumberbatch's Creature is unforgettable. "Tall as a pine tree," as the text insists, he has humour as well as pathos: his naked entry into the world is marked by a totter on splayed feet and, when he moves, it is with a forward-thrusting, angular, almost Hulotesque curiosity. But there is also an epic grandeur about Cumberbatch. As he quotes Paradise Lost, his voice savours every syllable of Milton's words and when, in outrage at his rejection by the exile's family, he burns their cottage, he utters a Hamletesque cry of "I sweep to my revenge." It is an astonishing performance.