NT Live: Frankenstein
When:
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016 7:00p -
10:00p
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016 7:00p -
10:00p
Where:
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Admission:
$20 Regular, $17 Coolidge Members and Seniors
Categories:
Film
Event website:
http://www.coolidge.org/films/frankenstein
Presented as National Theatre Live's Encore Series. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), this thrilling production features Jonny Lee Miller (CBS’s Elementary, Trainspotting) as Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) as his creation.
The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by over half a million people in cinemas around the world.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.
