Jekyll and Hyde

Synopsis

An evocative tale of romance and the epic battle between good and evil. Jekyll and Hyde is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart.

Our Review:

Scott Purvis - 17 June 2011

Bill Kenwright’s production of Jekyll & Hyde has proven, as Robert Louis Stevenson did in his 1886 novella, that life is simply an internalised conflict of good and evil. Like Dr. Jekyll in his laboratory, the production grapples with its own fine material, severing and slicing the macabre plot and wrenching pathos at the heart of the classic story and turning out a pantomime of Victorian London.

Frank Wildhorn’s score is pleasing and lithe, aiming for the witty melancholia of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and landing altogether closer to Oklahoma!. Whilst some of Leslie Bricusse’s lyrics jar with schmaltzy sentimentality, the show’s numbers soar with a lot of heart and a lot of blood, realising the decadence of the upper-class salon scene and the squalor of the whorehouse with colour and humo...

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Latest User Review

Jekyllfan - 31 August 2011:

The production as a whole was sensational!! the two leading ladies stole the show in my opinion. Sabrina carter playing Lucy was without a doubt the star of this production with flawless singing and brilliant acting! Sarah earnshaw even though the part lacks stage time she blew the audience away with her amazing vocals. ...

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