Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein free streaming event

[darktrain]

Hoping this features all the music, too.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/apr/23/danny-boyles-frankenstein-and-antony-and-cleopatra

[TheBang]

Nice. And if the current "stream" of Twelfth Night is any indication, it's basically just a regular YouTube video, so it should be fully downloadable.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-frankenstein

Been waiting for a quality home video version of this forever. Hopefully, it contains the full Overture too, which leads directly into the first scene.

[robotusch]

The streams are available on the National Theatre Youtube channel, set to go live on April 30th and May 1st respectively:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ntdiscovertheatre/videos

[TheBang]

Karl will be doing a Twitter Q&A after the livestream premiere today in 2 hours:

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[robotusch]

No full overture alas, but a very good performance no less. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's stream, as I've read there are some marked differences between how Cumberbatch and Miller plays the monster.

[khouri]

Nearly done with the second performance and just my opinion but I think Cumberbatch is definitively better than Miller as the Creature, and Miller is definitively better as Frankenstein. Cumberbatch's creature is far more tortured and emotive, you really feel what a wretched existence he lives within himself. Miller's is a gentler, even funnier take. No less valid, but for my taste it makes the story less dramatic.

[jetpig]

Bummer they had to make that cut at the climactic moment. It's brief, but it really dulls the spike. I suspect youtube rules required it?

[TheBang]

Yeah, that’s what NT said during the live chat. I don’t get what the big deal is. It’s dramatized rape and murder, not real. You can literally go on YouTube and rent Hollywood movies that depict worse than that.