To enhance this idea of the creator and the created and that bond between them, we thought we could enhance that theatrically by getting a couple of great actors to swap the parts. Literally one night they would be the created creature, the next they’d go back to being or they’d become the creator, the scientist, Frankenstein - DB
You have to begin each night anew. It also frees you from the idea of chasing what you did before that works and arching towards something for the future. So your preoccupation always becomes about the present, which is always at the heart and soul of what good playing should be. - BC
Inevitability with great actors what they bring is the part of themselves to it. They’re not just presenting Nick’s words, they also inhabit it with part of their personalities. So you get these very fine emphasis, their differences between them as well, and these similarities. Like a lot of serious actors, Benedict and Jonny are both clowns. So they find the humor in it as well, which are pretty brutal. - DB
We really cut ourselves - bruised ourselves. - BC
From ‘Doubling Frankenstein and the Creature - National Theatre at Home’
