Sunday 27
th February 2022, Leith Theatre,
Edinburgh, hosted the performance of
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde, a play that was written by Hope Dickson Leach and Vlad Butucea. The lead actors being Lorn Macdonald playing
Utterson
and Henry Pettigrew playing
Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde. To reach a wider audience the performance was
streamed and screened at various cinema across the United Kingdom.
The play is based on the iconic novella written by Robert
Louis Stevenson.
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| Lorn Macdonald |
Stevenson, wrote
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde, (1886).
The novella is about the
dual personality.
The main protagonist
of the story is
Gabriel John Utterson, the emotionless bachelor who is
the close friend of
Jekyll.
Utterson,
is nonetheless seems believable, trustworthy, tolerant of the faults of others
and indeed genuinely likeable.
However,
Utterson,
who is not immune to guilt, and he is quick to investigate and judge other
faults.
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| Henry Pettigrew |
Meanwhile,
Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Edward Hyde, is battling
between the good and evil within himself leading a struggle between his dual personalities.
Jekyll, who has many friends and has an
amiable personality, but unlike
Hyde who becomes mysterious and violent.
During the course of the novella
Hyde grows in power, after taking the potion,
Jekyll,
does not rely on it to unleash his inner demon.
Hyde becomes more powerful that
Jekyll needs to take the
potion to stay conscious.
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| Treasure Island (1883) |
This novella was Stevenson, third published work, his first was
Treasure Island, (1883).
Its originally
title was
The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys, the adventure novel tell the story
of buccaneers and buried gold.
The main
charters in the story, being
Jim Hawkins, the Bristol teenager, who
eager to go to sea to hunt for treasure.
Long John Silver, the one-legged cook on board the
Hispaniola and the leader of the pirates.
Robert Louis Stevenson was “discovered” by Amy Dillwyn.
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| Amy Dillwyn |
Dillwyn was the daughter of industrialist and politician
Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn.
She was herself
an author of a number of novels having started to write during the 1870’s, the
novels include
The Rebecca Rioter (1880);
Chloe Arguelle (1881);
Jill
(1884) and
Maggie Steele’s Diary (1892).
Dillwyn died 1935 and her ashes are buried at
St. Pauls Church, Sketty.
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
Stevenson, who during the 1890s settled in Samoa, where due
to alarmed increase in European and American influences in the South Sea
islands, his writing turned to a darker realism.
He died in his island home during 1894.
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