Frankenstein: Theater review

Danny Boyle makes his own in a breathtaking new stage version of Frankenstein.

National theatre, London (2 may)

Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller

Nick dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Danny Boyle

LONDON - fans of Danny Boyle's movies like Slumdog millionaire and 127 hours will not be surprised to learn that a new game in the National Theatre based is returning to the stage, directed by a breathtaking mix of intimate drama and spectacular images on Mary of Shelley's Frankenstein.

Benedict Cumberbatch, BBC-TV new Sherlock series, and Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone) on alternative nights as Victor Frankenstein and the creature in a play by Nick dear, the attention in the first minute packs star and can never go.

Cumberbatch has the edge in both roles because of its ability, provide a degree of madness of expression and voice that only of Lee Miller. Cumberbatch nails Frankenstein's air of innate superiority and he making the search schmerzenden creature of wisdom and compassion heartbreaking. Both productions are well worth seeing in a two-hour show, the shocks and surprises, some significant horror and has moments of great tenderness.

The game will be broadcast at cinemas in the UK on 17 March and 24 and also States and Canada are in other countries, including in the United States, although dates can vary. Boyle is not involved in the screen version, which is handled by the national theatre.

The stage presentation has such invention and vitality that there should be a great impression on the screen and the services of the two leading actors are as accurate and with that you should be strengthened only by close-up photography.

The big Olivier stage is national by two large rectangular panels flying from the countless lights, which hang like Flash on the moments when the creature from which he comes as a cesspool of broken bones. Because this creature is a sentient person who can assimilate information quickly and the story really one of innocence is damaged.

At the beginning, pulsating fabric on a wooden frame a large and broad district is strapped womb-like parts to reveal to a man-sized newborn, it falls to the ground and flaps as any nameless could have discovered thing, the Darwin.

For more than 10 minutes, the completely naked creature struggles to routes and are; to gain control of limbs and how to walk and run. In his findings, he includes the warming Sun and cooling rain and the simple joys of grass and rising birds cheering.

But soon his creator rejects him and greet him with horror and beats foreign. Hiking, he discovered an old man, de Lacey (Karl Johnson), who is blind and generous, and fills, which his hungry spirit with literature, philosophy and general knowledge. Ends, the back bad, and the lonely creature goes out to his creator to questions him, one to him finding female partners. Frankenstein is a pompous scientists, who believes a genius and is so obsessed with the first man to create another, he ignores his beautiful bride, Elizabeth (Naomie Harris), who will only give babies.

If the creature, which finds him obliged to distant Frankenstein one Scottish island to travel, where he will make a perfect his, but his genius flows does his fear, and soon the two in a destiny will be, that you forever Entwine is locked out.

Set designer Mark Tildesley used brings simple tracks made of wood and grass for scenes in the open air, above all spaces and buildings from the basement of the rotating stage and others come from the rafters.

At an early stage a furious apparatus leads Boyle as spit a large-scale locomotive with large wheels proposing flames and sparks the industrial turmoil is the backdrop for the story. It leaves a bitter taste in the air, which reinforces the tragedy of a creator who has lost his way and a creature not sure, why he is here, and what he should do but under the direction of a man who knows, what is he up to.

Venue: National Theatre, London (2 may)
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller
Author: Nick dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley
Director: Danny Boyle
Set designer: Mark Tildesley
Costumes: Suttirat Anne Larlarb
Lighting design: Bruno poet
Music and sound-score: Underworld

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