Title: Up To Light
Also at: AO3
Status: Complete
By: daasgrrl
Fandom: Frankenstein (Nick Dear)
Characters/Pairings: Victor Frankenstein/Creature
Rating: NC-17 (note warnings, please)
Word count: 5,600
Warnings/contents: Rape, major character death, desecration of a corpse
Beta: evila_elf
Notes: Based firmly on the Cumberbatch portrayal of the Creature, which left ( Read more... )

1. Amused for no particular reason to discover Sydney will be getting its own production of Nick Dear's Frankenstein. I'm not that keen, mainly because I've never heard of any of the cast - not always a bad thing, but I'm not sure the play is enough of a drawcard in and of itself. It looks like a completely new production, including original music ( Read more... )

FINALLY saw the reverse casting of Frankenstein today (BC as Victor, JLM as Creature). Despite the obvious disadvantage that it feels like BC gets much less screen time *g*, as an overall production I liked it much better ( Read more... )

Saw Frankenstein today; the same version I saw last year with BC as the Creature and JLM as Victor - for some reason the alternate casting is two weeks away, which for pacing is nice, but... that's the one I kind of really want to see ( Read more... )

1. I finished reading Frankenstein. Weirdly, it was pretty much exactly what I expected - my only real exposure to the story apart from, you know, pop culture images, is from seeing Branagh's movie when it originally came out, which is mostly told from Victor's perspective, and then more recently the National Theatre filmed production, which leans ( Read more... )

So I was back on lj for about two seconds last month, and then I wasn't again. I appear to have serious fandom apathy, although a lot seems to be happening at the moment what with RSL and all. Anyway, this is basically just a PSA for my Quast peeps - I knew it was coming out sometime, but I only just spotted it in a CD shop on the weekend. At a ( Read more... )