Review Arts Events
The particular arts event which I participated in was the live performance of Frankenstein Staring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller. All together I thought it was an electrifying stage performance showing the creativity and art behind this specific adaptation of Frankenstein.
From start to finished we see the world from the creatures point of view and get a sense of how he felt and how he reacted to curtain situations, from being made right at the start of the play and then to the point where he and Frankenstein made their way into the darkness were we expect that they died together. Throughout the play we see how the monster only wanted to be accept and how he travelled around, trying to find someone who would be nice to him and teach him new things, which turned out to be an old blind man. From this the old man taught the monster literature and from this the monster made his way to find Frankenstein and ask him why he created him. After finding Frankenstein and killing his younger brother, Frankenstein realizes that the creature he created is intelligent, and he has indeed created life, effectively playing the 'god role'. From this moment Frankenstein is begged to create a female version of the monster, so that it allows him to experience love, and lust. Leaving his home and going into hiding to create a female monster, once completed he shows his newly made creation to his original monster. Shouting and screaming at each other for about twenty minutes he ended up slaughtering his female monster creation and then running off into the night, going back home to his wife.
Once he is married he realizes that his original created monster is out to kill him, and he turns up at his house in attempt to do so, but by being shown affection and kindness by Frankenstein's wife he ends up raping her and killing her just to feel love. After such Frankenstein makes it his dying wish to kill what he created. Travelling into the mountains Frankenstein became reliant on his monster to keep him alive and give him a purpose to live, while this was the same for the monster. For the monster Frankenstein was he only thing keeping him alive as well, so in the end, they both needed each other to survive.
Though I've never seen anything like this before although I would definitely love to go see something like it again, and even go to see Frankenstein again in the future, if it's broadcast in cinemas again.
In my opening I though that the performance was amazing and I loved every single moment of it, the music and use of elements on the stage were amazing. Seeing fire on the stage and also seeing it rain, and indeed watching the stage collapse into itself and some parts go underground was amazing. Watching how everyone leapt around the stage and how the acting was superb was an electric experience which I'd happily see again.
What wasn't so good was the extended opening scene where the monster was created. When he was crawling around the stage and leaning how to move it walk, it seemed to almost drag on a bit and it generally seemed too long, although that was the only bad thing about the performance.
I'd recommend it to anyone even if they believed they wouldn't enjoy it, since I wasn't looking forward to watching the performance I still greatly enjoyed it, and this is why I recommend it, even if people only give it a chance.
From start to finished we see the world from the creatures point of view and get a sense of how he felt and how he reacted to curtain situations, from being made right at the start of the play and then to the point where he and Frankenstein made their way into the darkness were we expect that they died together. Throughout the play we see how the monster only wanted to be accept and how he travelled around, trying to find someone who would be nice to him and teach him new things, which turned out to be an old blind man. From this the old man taught the monster literature and from this the monster made his way to find Frankenstein and ask him why he created him. After finding Frankenstein and killing his younger brother, Frankenstein realizes that the creature he created is intelligent, and he has indeed created life, effectively playing the 'god role'. From this moment Frankenstein is begged to create a female version of the monster, so that it allows him to experience love, and lust. Leaving his home and going into hiding to create a female monster, once completed he shows his newly made creation to his original monster. Shouting and screaming at each other for about twenty minutes he ended up slaughtering his female monster creation and then running off into the night, going back home to his wife.
Once he is married he realizes that his original created monster is out to kill him, and he turns up at his house in attempt to do so, but by being shown affection and kindness by Frankenstein's wife he ends up raping her and killing her just to feel love. After such Frankenstein makes it his dying wish to kill what he created. Travelling into the mountains Frankenstein became reliant on his monster to keep him alive and give him a purpose to live, while this was the same for the monster. For the monster Frankenstein was he only thing keeping him alive as well, so in the end, they both needed each other to survive.
Though I've never seen anything like this before although I would definitely love to go see something like it again, and even go to see Frankenstein again in the future, if it's broadcast in cinemas again.
In my opening I though that the performance was amazing and I loved every single moment of it, the music and use of elements on the stage were amazing. Seeing fire on the stage and also seeing it rain, and indeed watching the stage collapse into itself and some parts go underground was amazing. Watching how everyone leapt around the stage and how the acting was superb was an electric experience which I'd happily see again.
What wasn't so good was the extended opening scene where the monster was created. When he was crawling around the stage and leaning how to move it walk, it seemed to almost drag on a bit and it generally seemed too long, although that was the only bad thing about the performance.
I'd recommend it to anyone even if they believed they wouldn't enjoy it, since I wasn't looking forward to watching the performance I still greatly enjoyed it, and this is why I recommend it, even if people only give it a chance.
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