Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Thanks for the info. The article made it sound like just the UK was getting the different second screening.

The place near me that broadcasts these NTL plays already airs two screenings, but they're always the same. For example, they're showing the King Lear one this Friday, then having another screening next month of the same broadcast. They're doing the same with Frankenstein, but it now makes me wonder if the second screening will be different.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

This is funny. Makes me wonder if there is a series of them.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...697848&theater

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5425163_n.jpg

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Little bit about Mary Shelly and writing the book on BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12460086

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

looking forward to viewing this in a cinema here in Canada in March.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

FYI, apparently the second NT Live broadcast, with the roles reversed, is only going to be showing in the UK and Europe.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

anyone seen frankie yet?????:o

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Do we reckon this is going to be available on CD? Would be ace if it was.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Yes, but only with a limited edition playbill, for $90, made available for 7 minutes, to Japanese customers only, at a random time, announced after it's sold out, via a mailing list that you can't sign up for unless you pre-order, IF the site's working.
:p

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Wonder if Rick or Karl & Jonny Lee Miller ever talked about working remotely together in Hackers (Jonny's character "Zero Cool" riding the arcade motorcycle game to the music of Cowgirl) those many years ago.

Also plenty to discuss if UW are fans of the amazing Showtime series Dexter, as he was one of the main characters on the recent fifth season. Can't say that I can picture him as Frankenstein's monster though, very weird.:)

Mini Frankenstein Review
 

From todays Sunday Times:

Looks like hearing the music might not give the full effect until shown with the actual visuals.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

You can download a Digital Programme for the upcoming Frankenstein broadcast for £3 here:

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=49018

Production photos:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...d=107334993856

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Interesting that from an interview on 6 Music, Karl mentioned that halfway through doing music for the production, they started jamming on a new track which caused the entire production crew to start dancing to. Interesting.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Not sure if many people have two showings of the NTL broadcasts, but I just found out that the one near me is indeed going to be showing both versions. This university usually just show the same broadcast on their second screening, but they just verified they'll be showing the 24 March version instead of doing a re-broadcast of the 17 March version. Hopefully that's happening elsewhere outside the UK for people interested in that.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

I picked up some of the flyers for the show when I saw it. They are about A5, folded on a single sheet printed on quality paper/card. If you want one pm me your address and I'll post them out for free- preference given to distant dirts.

Anyone with a London SE1 postcode can collect their own....

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

well, I am going to see this tomorrow. can't wait. although tickets are going for £200+ now.....thats tempting! but not tempting enough....

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

I'm in SE1, got any spare or are there plenty at the venue? Missed out on a ticket.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

They were in the racks on the varios floors. Save your legs and pm me your address. I'll post one.:)

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Well, really enjoyed the play yesterday. I only go to the theatre once or twice a year at most so cant offer a great critique but I can say that the production was amazing - the set changes were very clever and believable. The performance of the two main characters was also great (in fact there are lost of good characters). In the first 10/15 mins it really draws you in and grabs your attention. I wont mention any highlights for me as I dont want to write any spoilers - but I was not familiar with the story and there was some shocking and unpredicatble moments.

As for the Underworld contribution - I would say their music was using relatively sparingly. Dawn Of Eden will turn out to be a recognisable track and there were probably 2/3 other moments that will produce 'recognisable' music (kind of folk tracks). I could have been hearing things, but I'm sure I heard 'walk with me' played on a loop at some point - maybe the same sample with less distortion as used in one of the river run series (cant remember which). There was some acoustic guitar and I vividly remember hearing some singing thinking it was karls voice through a vocoder. And, I think Small Conker was played right at the beginning.

Trying to be indipendent (which is not easy) - I think the music worked really well with the play :)

There was a couple of barking type shirts for sale (black/white t-shirts with the letters on different lines) - one saying Frankenstein and I think the other was 'boom boom heartbeat'. The Barking box was also for sale.

Can't wait to see what they put together for the soundtrack and how it work without the visuals.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Found this article that's mostly about how they did the Frankenstein music (I thought there was a sticky articles thread?)

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-03...ival-march-26/

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Hey if anyone is wanting to see the show in LA it's playing at the Downtown Independent through april. It's the only place in LA that's showing both versions. TIckets are $15.

http://www.downtownindependent.com/e...l-theatre-live

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Sitting in the (movie) theatre now waiting for the play to start. Anyone else virtually joining us tonight?

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Nah, but enjoy. I more fancy seeing Johnny Lee Miller as the monster and Cumberbatch as Frankenstein so I'll try to see it next week :)

Let us know how the experience was!

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Hmmm…. I loved it!

the bells
the 1000 light bulbs
the monster (with or without scars - what a body!:))
the solitary moon
the brilliant script
the acting (not everyone though)
the exquisite music from U/W
and more…

Was it Karl who played guitar when the monster was dreaming of his love?

All in all
Beautiful!

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

I saw it at the start of the week with Jonny as the Monster. Really enjoyed it, and the sounds too, Quite intense though

Love to see it with the actors in oposite roles but v. expensive.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Broadcast was really great

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

I have only seen Danny Boyle´s Slumdog Millionaire and a few pieces of Trainspotting on YouTube but judging from that, intense scenes and themes seems to be his speciality.
It was full house yesterday with many artistic people, yet after 15 minutes, when the monsters pains reached the climax, some people leaved the cinema.
I guess that means the team made a great work :)

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

some people left as well where I was, that was an intense opening scene!

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

yeah, when the creature started to taste the grass I was almost crying...

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Same at the place I saw the broadcast (saw about 6 people leave during that opening). But there were a lot of people talking afterwards proclaiming their love for it.

I seriously want that lightbulb set to adorn my ceiling.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Saw it last night on NTLIve in Edinburgh. Left after half an hour. Boringggggg. Probably my attention span to blame :)

£16.90 inc fees, btw. $27. Not bringing theatre to the masses, then.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Yeah, I agree, the recommended age limit was 15 in Sweden.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

the tickets for the show were 50 quid each mostly, so I'd say you did alright :)

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

I'm assuming that since they spent the time/money/effort to record this for broadcast in theatres that soon it should be available on Blu and DVD.

Would be nice to see more video titles such as this released like the movie "REC 2" did....out on HD digital streaming formats like Amazon VoD many months before it was released on physical formats.:cool:

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

That would be great. I noticed there sure seemed to be a lot of chatter and requests for a dvd/blu release on the NTL Twitter and Facebook accounts.

But NTL has been recording and broadcasting their productions for two seasons and I don't know of any of those being released on dvd so far. But it seems like it exists in a physical (downloaded?) form because of how they tend to be on a tape delay. The place I saw it even had it on pause mode up on the screen at the beginning while a person spoke about donations/turn off phones/why they're not showing the Cherry Orchard broadcast.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

If they don't then hopefully a dirty (pun intended) bootleg will "RISE" so that "IT LIVES" on.:D

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Someone recently posted a question on the NTLive Facebook about DVD releases, and they said they currently had no plans.

Digital Cinema Package. Usually distributed to theaters via hard drive or satellite, I think.

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

They released the NTL: Cat in the Hat on DVD...

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/63359/childrens/the-cat-in-the-hat.html

but I guess thats a bit of a different context, right?

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Aw, bummer about the info. Cheers on the link. I wonder what happens to the content on each respective hard drive then.

Thanks for the correction on that and providing the exception. Too bad the audience for Frankenstein isn't the same as Cat in the Hat!

Re: Frankenstein the play (Danny Boyle/Underworld)
 

Ah, but that wasn't an NT Live broadcast. Here's a list of the NT Live broadcasts so far:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...of_Productions

As they said on their Facebook, they currently have no plans to release any. In fact, in checking their Facebook again, someone just asked specifically about Frankenstein:

http://www.facebook.com/DoctoretteWh...50133095028857

"Thanks for your interest in DVDs of the production. We are currently limited by our rights agreements with actors and unions so as not to be able to offer DVDs of our broadcasts. We are also keen to build the live communal audience for the broadcasts. But DVDs are certainly an area we may explore in the future. Emma - National Theatre"

Probably get recycled (sent back to be loaded with new content). Given that the content is all encrypted, it's entirely possible that the encryption keys expire after a certain time period, and the content becomes inaccessible.

Re: Frankenstein - The Album, March 17
 

Saw Frankenstein at the theater today. Great take on a classic story. Probably my favorite telling of it, tbh. I wish it had been a film and not a play but it was good as it was. I think Boyle could do so much more with a movie but he did great with the minimal sets and dramatic lighting. Underworld's music was well done and perfectly used. Wish I had bought a ticket to see the lead rolls swap but once will have to do.