A production from

by Nick Dear based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Cast, in order of speaking Production Team

The Creature Director Danny Boyle Benedict Cumberbatch or Jonny Lee Miller Set Designer Mark Tidesley Victor Frankenstein Costume Designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb Benedict Cumberbatch or Jonny Lee Miller Lighting Designer Bruno Poet Gretel Ella Smith Music & Sound Score Underworld Gustav John Killoran Director of Movement Toby Sedgwick Klaus Steven Elliott Fight Director Kate Waters Agatha de Lacey Lizzie Winkler Music Associate Alex Baranowski De Lacey Karl Johnson Sound Design Underworld, Ed Clarke Felix de Lacey Daniel Millar Elizabeth Lavenza Naomie Harris Broadcast Team William Frankenstein Jared Richard M. Frankenstein George Harris Director for Screen Tim Van Someren TechnicalProducer Christopher C Bretnall Clarice Ella Smith Assistant Screen Director Laura Vallis Servants Martin Chamberlain, Daniel Ings Lighting Directors Rab Mark Armstrong Bernie Davis, Mike Le Fevre Ewan John Stahl Sound Supervisor Conrad Fletcher Female Creature Andreea Padurariu Constable John Killoran Ensemble Josie Daxter, William Nye

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Join in Watch Use #Frankenstein and be If you loved the show, explore our YouTube a part of the conversation online. channel and watch interviews, behind the scenes videos and our favourite clips. /nationaltheatrelive youtube.com/ntdiscovertheatre @ntlive About the production An extract from an interview with writer A great deal of what we’re trying to do in Nick Dear, discussing how his version this show is to explore what it feels like to of Frankenstein fits into a long history of be that experiment. That was something adaptations of Mary Shelley’s story. Danny Boyle and I decided on years ago, which we felt would be a new approach I think we’re doing something that hasn’t to the story. We certainly don’t think it’s been been done before [in previous productions], done before, and we do it partly as a counter which is to tell the story, at least initially, to almost all the movies, of which there from the creature’s point of view. We do start are many, which usually deny the creature with the moment of creation but not told a voice. from the perspective of the scientists which is how it’s usually told; we tell it from the perspective of the experiment rather than the experimenter.

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