NT Live - National Theatre cinema screenings

Has anyone else been to one of these live cinema screenings of the National Theatre plays? We totally failed to get tickets to see the Danny Boyle/Benedict Cumberbatch/Jonny Lee Miller production of Frankenstein in the whole ten minutes they were on sale, so we jumped at the chance to go to see it at a cinema instead, and just barely managed to get tickets for that before all the London venues sold out.

Anyway, the first of the two Frankenstein live screenings was last night and it was FANTASTIC! For £15, I am absolutely convinced we got the better show than the people at the Olivier Theatre - they had multiple cameras, including a ceiling mounted one, and the camerawork and editing and sound was all superb - it was more like watching a really good film than one of those staid, horrible plays-on-tv we had to sit through in high school English class. We could see way, way more emotion and detail than even the people in the front row... Plus our cinema let us take booze in with us, how civilised.

We enjoyed it so much that we're talking about buying the inevitable dvd for this when it comes out, and signed up to the newsletter for next season's plays.

I'm fairly certain next Thursday's screening of Frankenstein (with the opposite casting - Cumberbatch as the doctor and Miller as the creature) is sold out in London but there are cinemas showing it all over the country and the world, too, so it's worth looking on the NT Live site to see if there are tickets left by you. I highly highly recommend going if there are!

Has anyone else been to any of these? I think they've only been doing it for a season or two now, but it's seriously slick and great value for money!

I don't really understand if this is related or not, but this is going on in Leeds tomorrow:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leeds/2011/mar/18/frankensteins-wedding-live-in-leeds-preview

At Kirkstall Abbey!  Should have got tickets.

And you can watch it on TV tomorrow, BBC Three at 8 pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z0dn4

At the last film I went to I did notice they were advertising on the previews for cinema tickets for Les Miserables. That was a while back now so I don't think it still showing. 

I don't really understand if this is related or not, but this is going on in Leeds tomorrow:

No, that's a completely different production with a similar name! (kinda like when Hollywood decides to put out two similar films at the sae time, like Antz/A Bug's Life, etc I guess!).

I found this

http://www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/odeon-plus/?utm_source=odeon&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=homepage_to_odeon_plus&utm_campaign=odeon_plus_09_07_2010

I'm glad you posted about this Squirrellypoo, I'm going to get some tickets booked.

The BFI IMAX is doing encore showings of the first casting (Cumberbatch: creature, Jonny Lee Miller: Frankenstein) on the 21/23 in London.

Now to decide whether to see one or both versions.

Oooooh. Must investigate. Did they do the Helen Mirren "Phaedra" through this?

Did they do the Helen Mirren "Phaedra" through this?

No idea, but as a side note, my mom's cousin was in that.

No, that's a completely different production with a similar name! (kinda like when Hollywood decides to put out two similar films at the sae time, like Antz/A Bug's Life, etc I guess!).

Ok, lol!  It's all the buzz in Leeds this week, but I think tickets for attending the live event went fast.  The Abbey ruins should give it a cool enhanced atmospheric/gothic quality.  I get to watch it in cuddly warmth from my sofa. 

Oooooh. Must investigate. Did they do the Helen Mirren "Phaedra" through this?

Yes! Though I only know this because they were showing clis of previous NT Live events before the show.

And equestriannerd- we definitely want to see the alternate casting now that we've seen it one way!