Cumberbatch starred in the 2011 Royal National Theatre adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which he alternated with actor Jonny Lee Miller in the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creature.
(Three child actors alternate in that part. I saw Lewis Andrews, who possesses extraordinary lungs).
Two separate casts of six "Bats" — the Flea Theater's resident troupe of young actors — alternate in the play's more than two dozen roles.
(Mr. Wolfe said he considered having the actors alternate roles regularly as Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly did in last season's "True West" but decided he did not want to upstage a new play).
Two actors alternate in the role, one for six performances a week, the other for two.
The delivery of the event follows the pattern of an opera: after a long speech, the actors alternate among one another to deliver single-line asides to the audience.
With two actors alternating the lead roles, how did you go about rehearsing the play?
The actors alternated roles each night, and Mark Rylance played Lee when I saw it.
Ian Richardson/Richard Pasco, Stratford, 1973 A sensational re-evaluation of the play by John Barton in which two fine actors alternated nightly as Richard and Bolingbroke: they became mirror-images of power as a study in public performance.
When he revisited England in 1880, his appearances at London's Princess Theatre were near failures until Henry Irving, star and manager of the much superior Lyceum Theatre, invited him to costar at the Lyceum in what proved a memorable engagement, the two actors alternating as Othello and Iago.
