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Frankenstein's Wedding

Field	Value
image	Frankensteins Wedding Live In Leeds Title Card.JPG
genre
writer	Chloe Moss
director	Colin Teague
starring
country	United Kingdom
executive_producer
producer	Tony Followell
runtime	85 mins
network	BBC Three
first_aired
last_aired

Frankenstein's Wedding (also known as Frankenstein's Wedding… Live in Leeds) is a live musical drama based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The show was broadcast live on BBC Three on 19 March 2011 from Kirkstall Abbey.

Summary

The show followed the same story line as Shelley's novel, however it was based mostly around the night of Victor Frankenstein's wedding. An audience of 12,000 watch from Kirkstall Abbey as Victor and Elizabeth Lavenza get married. Throughout the event scenes which had been filmed prior were shown, mainly focusing on Frankenstein's monster. There were moments in which the cast sang well known songs, including Andrew Gower performing the song "Wires" by Athlete.

Cast

Lacey Turner as Elizabeth 'Liz' Lavenza
Andrew Gower as Victor Frankenstein
David Harewood as The Creature
Mark Williams as Alphonse Frankenstein
Jemima Rooper as Justine Mortiz
Andrew Knott as Henry
Pearce Quigley as Uncle Alfred "Fred" Frankenstein
Gary Carr as Giles
Michael Higgs as a Detective
Anthony Lewis as a Policeman

Reception

The drama was nominated for the "Sport & Live Event award" at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards. and "Nations and Regions Programme award" at the Royal Television Society Programme awards,

The production did win a hat-trick of awards for the "Sport or Event Coverage", "Professional Excellence: Vision & Audio", and "Music or Use of Music" at the regional RTS Yorkshire awards.

References

[https://www.theguardian.com/leeds/2011/mar/18/frankensteins-wedding-live-in-leeds-preview Baron, John. "Signing Off for the Weekend - With ''Frankenstein's Wedding ... Live in Leeds''."] ''[[The Guardian]].'' 18 March 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
Hickling, Alfred. (2011-03-20). "Frankenstein's Wedding – review".
"Video: Backstage at BBC's Frankenstein's Wedding in Leeds".
(2011-03-15). "Frankenstein's Wedding... Live in Leeds {{!}} Film Review Online". Film Review Online.
(24 April 2012). "Bafta TV awards 2012: full list of nominations". [[The Guardian]].
"RTS PROGRAMME AWARDS 2012". [[Royal Television Society.
"THE 2012 RTS YORKSHIRE CENTRE PROGRAMME AWARDS". RTS.

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