Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has opened many a door, both for readers as well as audiences of its screen and stage adaptations. When the Trainspotting and 28 Days Later filmmaker Danny Boyle tackled the treasured tale for Britain’s Royal National Theatre in 2011, his production also welcomed viewers around the globe into the then-new world of National Theatre Live.
Indeed, if you caught it and told your friends – or did the same with James Corden-led comedy One Man, Two Guvnors; the Helen Mirren-led The Audience; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; War Horse; Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s original one-woman Fleabag; or Australian-born theatre sensation Prima Facie – then you’re a key the reason that NT Live has been going strong in Australia for 17 years.
Sarah Ward is a film and television critic; arts, entertainment and culture editor and journalist; and film festival organiser. She is the film and TV critic for ABC radio Gold Coast, the Australia-based film critic for Screen International, and a critic and member at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sarah’s background also spans stints as film and television editor at both Concrete Playground and Variety Australia, and as Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz critic and writer. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birth.Movies.Death, SBS, SBS Movies, Flicks, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Junkee, FilmInk, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine and Screen Education, the City of Gold Coast, the World Film Locations book series and more.
