Casting announced for Sell A Door's Jekyll and Hyde
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Casting has been announced for Sell A Door's new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, which opens at Greenwich Theatre next month ahead of a UK tour.
The title roles of Jekyll and Hyde will be played by Nathan Ives-Moiba, with Lyle Barke as Utterson and Rowena Lennon as Dr Lanyon.
Ives-Moiba's stage credits include Our Country’s Good and Mixed Up North, both directed by Max Stafford Clarke for Out of Joint.
Barke's recent credits include Secret Cinema's Back To The Future, while Rowena Lennon's credits include The Elves and the Shoemaker at New Wolsey Studio and We're Going on a Bear Hunt at the Lyric Theatre.
Jo Clifford's new version sets the action of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel in "an alternative London of the future that is consumed by the quest for immortality".
Dr Henry Jekyll is a high-profile cancer specialist, determined to find a cure for mankind’s greatest medical challenge. But in his obsession to be the doctor that makes this historic breakthrough, Jekyll's radical research results in the creation of an unintentional strain of drug which entirely alters the patient's personality…
Clifford has close to 80 dramatic works, including Dickens' Great Expectations which was recently revived in a new production at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre. She is currently under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland.
Jekyll and Hyde is directed by David Hutchinson with design by Richard Evans, lighting design by Charlie Morgan Jones and movement by Racky Plews. The assistant director is Lucy Atkinson.
The production marks the first Sell A Door has produced since gaining Arts Council funding. It opens at the Greenwich Theatre from 11 to 14 February 2015, before visiting over 30 venues nationwide including Leeds, Perth, Mansfield, Oxford, Croydon, Cambridge and Richmond.
