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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Adapted by PAUL STEBBINGS & PHIL SMITH 

Directed by PAUL STEBBINGS

Musical score by CHRISTIAN AUER

Produced by GRANTLY MARSHALL

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Duration: 85 min

Q&A: can be arranged

Study material: free of charge

Cast: Sylas Shaw, Simone Mumford,

Jean-Paul Pfluger

Only very seldom does a novel have such impact that it transcends fiction and becomes myth. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of that select company. The novel is a gripping thriller, a horror story, a tragedy and above all an exploration of the split personality that we surely all feel lies within us, and with this the choice between good and evil.


The tale is dramatised with the unique theatrical style, combining dynamic physical theatre with a film like score and draw on the style of Victorian melodrama, detective thrillers and silent film to create an exciting and accessible piece of theatre that will reveal the dark heart of this extraordinary novel.


"He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth;—he seemed to swell-his face became suddenly black and the features began to melt and alter-"O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there before my eyes— pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death-there stood Henry Jekyll !"

This is a new version of  the successful TNT production which toured Europe a decade ago, developed and expanded with songs and above all a new female character, the detective-like Abigail Utterson,  with which we seek to explore the deeper themes of Stevenson's masterpiece. The production is created by Paul Stebbings whose work has been seen worldwide and won numerous awards. This is popular theatre of the highest quality, created by "the world's most popular touring theatre company" China National TV. 

“What would you like to do if you knew there was no punishment for it?” asks a masked man. He has made his way into the stalls of the Theater am Domhof and has chosen audience member Jürgen as his contact person. The masked man acts as the narrator of the story about the London scientist who transforms into his evil second self with the help of home-brewed elixirs. With minimal means  TNT theatre brings the play about Dr. Jekyll's self-inflicted tragic double life to the stage.

The actors  do not to focus so much on the horror, the terror and the murderous actions of Mr. Hyde. Instead, the narrator emphasizes the moral aspects of the novella: “Isn't it true that there is something evil sleeping in all of us that likes to find its way to the surface?” <...>

In the stage adaptation by Phil Smith and director Paul Stebbings, ADG Europe and the TNT Theater are staging the novella as a thought-provoking drama with an entertaining twist. “I'm drunk of my own evil”, Dr. Jekyll exclaims in despair, then transforms into Mr. Hyde one last time. Under the eyes of his last friend, he reaches for the poison. – to protect mankind from itself.

Osnabrucker Zeitung

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