Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (NHB Modern Plays)

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A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.This version, first performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1996, is a revised and partially re-written version of the adaptation premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 1991.'a single actor tackles both roles... His transformation from mild-mannered, myopic doctor to the fiendish Mr Hyde is merely the physical manifestation of the divisions within the Victorian psyche. This thoughtful show goes far beyond melodrama' - Guardian'urgent, superbly wrought and well-structured' - Observer'Both a theatrical feast and an intellectual challenge' - Sunday Times