Live Theatre On The Big Screen

For over 15 years, The National Theatre Live has given audiences the best seat in the house, filming unmissable theatre live from Britain’s most exciting stages and screening it in thousands of cinemas around the globe. The productions have been seen by more than 13 million people worldwide.

NT Live Frankenstein on OCT 31 & NOV 1 & 3 at Rosebank Nouveau, Cresta, Brooklyn Commercial, Watercrest, Maerua and V & A IMAX. Bookings

The NT Live staging of Frankenstein remains significant because it redefined what theatrical adaptation can look like on screen. Danny Boyle’s production fused muscular physicality with stark, industrial design to create a world that felt both mythic and brutally contemporary, and the alternating performances of Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller turned the Creature and Victor into a haunting study of mirrored humanity.

NT Live’s broadcast amplified this impact, allowing global audiences to experience the immediacy, sweat, and emotional voltage of a live performance while preserving the production’s cinematic scale. It became a benchmark for how theatre can expand beyond the stage without losing its raw, electric presence.

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 increasingly desperate and vengeful Creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil, are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic tale.