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* CassandraTruth: The Creature keeps telling De Lacey that Felix and Agatha would drive him away because of his deformities if they ever saw. De Lacey insists they are good people who would overlook that. De Lacey learns the truth the hard way.
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* [[PointOfView]]: The original novel was told through Victor's eyes. Here the main focus is on the Creature; he is the first character we see and besides the brief scuffle in the lab, Victor doesn't really come into focus until the Creature makes his way to Geneva
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Perhaps because this version is told primarily from the Creature's point of view, Victor is more of a jerk than he was in the novel, and most of his redeeming qualities are left out.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The DeLacey family. The Creature sets their hut on fire as vengance for casting him out (even the old man).
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* ColorBlindCasting: Victor's father, brother, and Elizabeth are played by black actors.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The play does away with the FramingDevice from Mary Shelley's {{Literature/Frankenstein}} and focuses on the relationship between Victor and the Creature. It also keep's Victor's age correct, and like the novel, leaves how he brought the Creature to life vague. It's probably the truest adaptation of Shelley's novel. The only major thing left out besides Captain Walton is the maid the Creature
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* AdaptationDistillation: The play does away with the FramingDevice with Captain Walton from Mary Shelley's {{Literature/Frankenstein}} and focuses on the relationship between Victor and the Creature. It also keep's Victor's age correct, and like the novel, leaves how he brought the Creature to life vague. It's probably the truest adaptation of Shelley's novel. The only major thing left out things omitted besides Walton, are Victor's time at the University and Justine the maid who ends framed and killed for William's death.
* AdaptedOut: Captain Robert Walton is nowhere to be found. Nor are Professors Waldman and Kempe, or Victor's friend Henry Clerval, or the maidthe Creature Justine,
* AdaptedOut: Captain Robert Walton is nowhere to be found. Nor are Professors Waldman and Kempe, or Victor's friend Henry Clerval, or the maid
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* NoNameGiven: The Creature ruefully notes that Victor never gave him that luxury.
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Moving to trivia.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The play does away with the FramingDevice from Mary Shelley's {{Literature/Frankenstein}} and focuses on the relationship between Victor and the Creature. It also keep's Victor's age correct, and like the novel, leaves how he brought the Creature to life vague. It's probably the truest adaptation of Shelley's novel. The only major thing left out besides Captain Walton is the maid the Creature
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Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the MadScientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to animate a groaning, inarticulate hulk. No. When the stage lights up, there is a womb-like structure suspended far to one side... and the audience glimpses a man moving within it. The womb bursts open, and a monstrous-looking man staggers out -- onto to fall onto the floor, wailing and weeping like a helpless newborn. The show continues to follow this nameless Creature's development and exploration of the world... sensations as delightful as rainfall and as hateful as fear, the potential of other people, and his own capacities for knowledge, wonder, and destruction. Soon, the play is shaped by his eventual quest to find the man who made him, and ask one driving question: Why did he make the Creature, only to abandon him? ''Why?''
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Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the MadScientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to animate a groaning, inarticulate hulk. No. When the stage lights up, there is a womb-like structure suspended far to one side... and the audience glimpses a man moving within it. The womb bursts open, and a monstrous-looking man staggers out -- onto to fall onto the floor, wailing and weeping like a helpless newborn. The show continues to follow this nameless Creature's development and exploration of the world... sensations as delightful as rainfall and as hateful as fear, the potential of other people, and his own capacities for knowledge, wonder, and destruction. Soon, Eventually, the play is shaped by his eventual quest to find the man who made him, and ask one driving question: Why did he make the Creature, only to abandon him? ''Why?''
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* Expy: Cumberbatch's Victor feels like a Regency era ''{{Series/Sherlock}}''.
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* KillTheCutie: [[Cute little William Frankenstein. Elizabeth hits this in the penultimate scene, and gets it even worse, as she has been acting as what passes for Victor's conscience.]]
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* KillTheCutie: [[Cute [[spoiler: Cute little William Frankenstein. Elizabeth hits this in the penultimate scene, and gets it even worse, as she has been acting as what passes for Victor's conscience.]]
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Elizabeth.]]
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Elizabeth.[[Cute little William Frankenstein. Elizabeth hits this in the penultimate scene, and gets it even worse, as she has been acting as what passes for Victor's conscience.]]
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* MaleFrontalNudity: The Creature is born naked and stays that way for about 20 minutes as he learns to control his own body. And he's played by BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller. IllBeInMyBunk.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: The Creature is born naked and stays that way for about 20 minutes as he learns to control his own body. And he's played by BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller. IllBeInMyBunk. (The filmed releases have the Creature emerging in a loincloth that is pretty much his exact skin tone.)
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* CradlingYourKill: When the Creature [[spoiler: thinks Frankenstein is dead]].
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* CradlingYourKill: When the Creature [[spoiler: thinks Frankenstein is dead]].dead, finally run down by his long, long chase]].
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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The Creature emerges from his wound covered in stitches and gashes, and sutures that hold his arms to his shoulders. These wounds never heal over the course of the play -- this is clearly deliberate, given that Frankenstein, later in the play, gleefully observes "The sutures have held!" -- not healed, but held.
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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The Creature emerges from his wound womb covered in stitches and gashes, and sutures that hold his arms to his shoulders. These wounds never heal over the course of the play -- this is clearly deliberate, given that Frankenstein, later in the play, gleefully observes "The sutures have held!" -- not healed, but held.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Though Frankenstein taunts the Creature cruelly regarding the female Creature, he makes several valid points -- there's no way to ''force'' her to love the Creature, she might hate him, or turn out depraved, and she has no reason to honor a promise made on her behalf before she was created.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The Creature emerges from his wound covered in stitches and gashes, and sutures that hold his arms to his shoulders. These wounds never heal over the course of the play -- this is clearly deliberate, given that Frankenstein, later in the play, gleefully observes "The sutures have held!" -- not healed, but held.
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* Expy: Cumberbatch's Victor feels like a Regency era [[Sherlock.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: De Lacey, after his children meet the Creature.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: De Lacey, after his children meet the Creature.Creature -- not just because of the fear and shock inflicted on his family, but because he knows he has wrecked the Creature's trust in human goodness.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: It's SherlockHolmes versus SherlockHolmes. Both of them are Holmes in the modern era.
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Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the MadScientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to animate a groaning, inarticulate hulk. No. When the stage lights up, there is a womb-like structure suspended far to one side... and the audience glimpses a man moving within it. The womb bursts open, and a monstrous-looking man staggers out -- onto to fall onto the floor, wailing and weeping like a helpless newborn. The show continues to follow this nameless Creature's development and exploration of the world... and his eventual quest to find the man who made him, and ask one driving question: '''Why.'''
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Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the MadScientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to animate a groaning, inarticulate hulk. No. When the stage lights up, there is a womb-like structure suspended far to one side... and the audience glimpses a man moving within it. The womb bursts open, and a monstrous-looking man staggers out -- onto to fall onto the floor, wailing and weeping like a helpless newborn. The show continues to follow this nameless Creature's development and exploration of the world... sensations as delightful as rainfall and as hateful as fear, the potential of other people, and his own capacities for knowledge, wonder, and destruction. Soon, the play is shaped by his eventual quest to find the man who made him, and ask one driving question: '''Why.'''
Why did he make the Creature, only to abandon him? ''Why?''
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A 2011 play by Nick Dear and directed by Creator/DannyBoyle. It stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller alternating as {{Franchise/Frankenstein}} and [[FRankensteinsMonster the Monster]]. Scored with dark electronic ambient by the band Music/{{Underworld}}.
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A 2011 play by Nick Dear and directed by Creator/DannyBoyle. It stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller alternating as {{Franchise/Frankenstein}} and [[FRankensteinsMonster [[FrankensteinsMonster the Monster]]. Scored with dark electronic ambient by the band Music/{{Underworld}}.
Music/{{Underworld}}.
Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the MadScientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to animate a groaning, inarticulate hulk. No. When the stage lights up, there is a womb-like structure suspended far to one side... and the audience glimpses a man moving within it. The womb bursts open, and a monstrous-looking man staggers out -- onto to fall onto the floor, wailing and weeping like a helpless newborn. The show continues to follow this nameless Creature's development and exploration of the world... and his eventual quest to find the man who made him, and ask one driving question: '''Why.'''
Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the MadScientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to animate a groaning, inarticulate hulk. No. When the stage lights up, there is a womb-like structure suspended far to one side... and the audience glimpses a man moving within it. The womb bursts open, and a monstrous-looking man staggers out -- onto to fall onto the floor, wailing and weeping like a helpless newborn. The show continues to follow this nameless Creature's development and exploration of the world... and his eventual quest to find the man who made him, and ask one driving question: '''Why.'''
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Underworld's entire score.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Both versions of the play were recorded and aired in theaters around the world in 2011 and re-released in 2012. Despite the fact that DannyBoyle directed it and it's BenedictCumberbatch and JonnyLeeMiller, the National Theatre says it will not release it on DVD as it would not have the same experience.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretations: Befitting the fact that the two leads swap roles each night. Cumberbatch's Victor is aloof and arrogant, while his Creature is prone to being a LargeHam. Miller's Victor is much more of a manic MadScientist and his Creature is much more down to earth.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Cumberbatch's Creature delivers the "This is your universe, Frankenstein" in a very over the top way, enunciating every syllable in the scientists name. Miller's delivery of the same line is more pointed and subdued.
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!!This stage production has the examples of:
* AltarTheSpeed: After breaking his promise and hearing the Creature's subsequent threats, Frankenstein is suddenly very, very keen to marry Elizabeth as soon as possible. It doesn't help.
* AntagonistInMourning: Depends on who you think the antagonist is...
* BedmateReveal: Guaranteed to make the audience gasp aloud, and definitely not PlayedForLaughs.
* CoupDeGrace: Poor Elisabeth.
* CradlingYourKill: When the Creature [[spoiler: thinks Frankenstein is dead]].
* DeathEqualsEmotion: Frankenstein admits that he threw away every chance he had of love.
* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: "Master, what is it like to die? Can I die? How long does death last?"
* DefiantToTheEnd: Frankenstein.
* DontLookAtMe: The Creature to William, knowing how people react to him.
* DramaticThunder: It wouldn't be ''Frankenstein'' without it.
* DueToTheDead: M. Frankenstein is horrified that Frankenstein has been mountain climbing and is now leaving the country before his brother can even be buried.
* EroticDream: The Creature dreams of a female like himself.
--> '''De Lacey''': It was a good dream, then?
--> '''The Creature''': It was pleasing, yes.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Frankenstein finds the Creature living on the glaciers, the only place he isn't hounded from; later, they both journy to the Arctic Circle.
* ExposedToTheElements: The Creature wears an open shirt and waistcoat, ragged trousers and no shoes in the Arctic, while Frankenstein wears a fur-lined seal-skin suit with hood. gloves and boots.
* FireIsRed: Lighting to indicate the burning building.
* FirstSnow: The Creature has a childlike delight in the first snowfall he experiences, and keeps sneaking away from his lessons with de Lacey to play in it.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: There was a giant bell above the stalls for this effect.
* ForScience: Frankenstein's justification to the Creature.
* GetOut: Frankenstein to the servant.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: How Frankenstein describes his experiment to Elizabeth.
* GraveRobbing: How Frankenstein gets the material to make the female Creature. Even the Creature is disgusted.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Beginning and ending the play.
* HoldMe: Elizabeth tries to persuade Frankenstein to stay - or at least take her on his trip to Scotland - with this.
* IAmWhatIAm: The Creature, in a downright heartbreaking scene.
--> I am different. I have tried to be the same, but I am different.
* IComeInPeace: Subverted, rather horribly, when the Creature meets Elizabeth.
* ILied: The Creature to Elisabeth.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Especially on the night the Creature comes to claim the female Frankenstein has promised.
* IWarnedYou: The Creature to Frankenstein. He certainly did.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Elizabeth.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: The Creature tells Elizabeth that this is why he must behave the way he does.
* MaleFrontalNudity: The Creature is born naked and stays that way for about 20 minutes as he learns to control his own body. And he's played by BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller. IllBeInMyBunk.
* MelancholyMoon: The Creature describes the moon as solitary and sad, like himself.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: De Lacey, after his children meet the Creature.
* RevengeBeforeReason: For the sake of revenge, the Creature will kill even the few people who have shown him kindness.
* ParentalAbandonment: The source of the Creature's problems. Benedict Cumberbatch has told interviewers that the play is about bad parenting.
* ParentalSubstitute: De Lacey.
* PleaseWakeUp: The Creature to Frankenstein, in one of the most moving scenes.
* PostRapeTaunt: "Now I am a man!"
* RevengeByProxy: Can't get at your creator? Well, he has a sweet and innocent fiancee...
* RousseauWasRight: The Creature is born innocent, but learns the ways of men.
--> '''The Creature''': And finally...I learned how to lie.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Well, we don't ''see'' M. Frankenstein dying of a broken heart...
* TalkingToTheDead: Frankenstein dreams a conversation with his dead brother.
* TraumaCongaLine: The whole play, for both Frankenstein and the Creature.
* WhereDidWeGoWrong: M. Frankenstein thinks his son has gone mad. He may be right.
* YouCanTalk: Frankenstein to his Creature.
--> '''The Creature''': Yes, Frankenstein, "it" can talk.
* YouMonster: Frankenstein to the Creature. Actually, everyone to the Creature.
* YouTaughtMeThat: The Creature tell both Elizabeth and Frankenstein that he has become a monster because Frankenstein abandoned, abused and deceived him.
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!!This stage production has the examples of:
* AltarTheSpeed: After breaking his promise and hearing the Creature's subsequent threats, Frankenstein is suddenly very, very keen to marry Elizabeth as soon as possible. It doesn't help.
* AntagonistInMourning: Depends on who you think the antagonist is...
* BedmateReveal: Guaranteed to make the audience gasp aloud, and definitely not PlayedForLaughs.
* CoupDeGrace: Poor Elisabeth.
* CradlingYourKill: When the Creature [[spoiler: thinks Frankenstein is dead]].
* DeathEqualsEmotion: Frankenstein admits that he threw away every chance he had of love.
* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: "Master, what is it like to die? Can I die? How long does death last?"
* DefiantToTheEnd: Frankenstein.
* DontLookAtMe: The Creature to William, knowing how people react to him.
* DramaticThunder: It wouldn't be ''Frankenstein'' without it.
* DueToTheDead: M. Frankenstein is horrified that Frankenstein has been mountain climbing and is now leaving the country before his brother can even be buried.
* EroticDream: The Creature dreams of a female like himself.
--> '''De Lacey''': It was a good dream, then?
--> '''The Creature''': It was pleasing, yes.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Frankenstein finds the Creature living on the glaciers, the only place he isn't hounded from; later, they both journy to the Arctic Circle.
* ExposedToTheElements: The Creature wears an open shirt and waistcoat, ragged trousers and no shoes in the Arctic, while Frankenstein wears a fur-lined seal-skin suit with hood. gloves and boots.
* FireIsRed: Lighting to indicate the burning building.
* FirstSnow: The Creature has a childlike delight in the first snowfall he experiences, and keeps sneaking away from his lessons with de Lacey to play in it.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: There was a giant bell above the stalls for this effect.
* ForScience: Frankenstein's justification to the Creature.
* GetOut: Frankenstein to the servant.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: How Frankenstein describes his experiment to Elizabeth.
* GraveRobbing: How Frankenstein gets the material to make the female Creature. Even the Creature is disgusted.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Beginning and ending the play.
* HoldMe: Elizabeth tries to persuade Frankenstein to stay - or at least take her on his trip to Scotland - with this.
* IAmWhatIAm: The Creature, in a downright heartbreaking scene.
--> I am different. I have tried to be the same, but I am different.
* IComeInPeace: Subverted, rather horribly, when the Creature meets Elizabeth.
* ILied: The Creature to Elisabeth.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Especially on the night the Creature comes to claim the female Frankenstein has promised.
* IWarnedYou: The Creature to Frankenstein. He certainly did.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Elizabeth.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: The Creature tells Elizabeth that this is why he must behave the way he does.
* MaleFrontalNudity: The Creature is born naked and stays that way for about 20 minutes as he learns to control his own body. And he's played by BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller. IllBeInMyBunk.
* MelancholyMoon: The Creature describes the moon as solitary and sad, like himself.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: De Lacey, after his children meet the Creature.
* RevengeBeforeReason: For the sake of revenge, the Creature will kill even the few people who have shown him kindness.
* ParentalAbandonment: The source of the Creature's problems. Benedict Cumberbatch has told interviewers that the play is about bad parenting.
* ParentalSubstitute: De Lacey.
* PleaseWakeUp: The Creature to Frankenstein, in one of the most moving scenes.
* PostRapeTaunt: "Now I am a man!"
* RevengeByProxy: Can't get at your creator? Well, he has a sweet and innocent fiancee...
* RousseauWasRight: The Creature is born innocent, but learns the ways of men.
--> '''The Creature''': And finally...I learned how to lie.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Well, we don't ''see'' M. Frankenstein dying of a broken heart...
* TalkingToTheDead: Frankenstein dreams a conversation with his dead brother.
* TraumaCongaLine: The whole play, for both Frankenstein and the Creature.
* WhereDidWeGoWrong: M. Frankenstein thinks his son has gone mad. He may be right.
* YouCanTalk: Frankenstein to his Creature.
--> '''The Creature''': Yes, Frankenstein, "it" can talk.
* YouMonster: Frankenstein to the Creature. Actually, everyone to the Creature.
* YouTaughtMeThat: The Creature tell both Elizabeth and Frankenstein that he has become a monster because Frankenstein abandoned, abused and deceived him.
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