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Play for performance: Jekyll and Hyde

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Each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students. This issue, Louise Peacock, Associate Professor and Head of Drama at De Montfort University, shares her experience of mounting a socially distanced production of Jekyll and Hyde
The NYT REP Company's production of Jekyll & Hyde at the Ambassadors Theatre
The NYT REP Company's production of Jekyll & Hyde at the Ambassadors Theatre - NOBBY CLARK

In Jekyll and Hyde Evan Placey reimagines Robert Louis Stevenson's novella. Originally written for the National Youth Theatre, the play offers a wide range of parts and its setting collides Victorian and 21st Century London, offering exciting opportunities for staging. The play focuses not on Edward Jekyll, Stevenson's protagonist, but on his widow, Harriet Jekyll, who is determined to continue her husband's research despite the resistance of his fellow scientists. This refocusing allows the play to explore how gender roles can restrict us: a topic which speaks readily to young actors. Placey's intention was to place the almost invisible female characters of the novel at the heart of the play.

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