This is very good news - Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller have both been awarded the Best Actor in the Evening Standard's Theatre Awards. They shared the roles - Victor Frankenstein and the Creature - so I guess that it's only fair that they should share the credit and the award.
I saw the show twice at the National Theatre, both times with Jonny Lee Miller playing the Creature, and it was an amazingly committed and physical performance; and Benedict Cumberbatch impressed as Victor Frankenstein. Much was made in the press, of course, of the opening scene where the (naked) Creature is born and spends about 10 minutes learning how to walk and run. I was in the front Stalls for both performances (i.e. very close to the stage) and I must admit that it takes a particularly brave actor to bare his soul - and everything else - to such a large audience on an empty stage every night.
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