Kip Williams’ new high-tech production is occasionally overwhelmed and treads well-worn territory – but the story lands just when it needs to
Company), composer Clemence Williams, and crucially, video designer David Bergman – have returned to Victorian England to explode another novella about duplicity, duality, and a touch of horror: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
With a noir-ish black and white camera feed, and with Schlieper’s lights delighting in shadow, the play embraces the mystery elements of the original story: Utterson is confused by the apparent connection behind the brutish Edward Hyde, who has been terrorising London, and his friend Henry Jekyll, a well-respected doctor. He fears that Jekyll has been intimidated and blackmailed.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde feels a little too like well-worn territory for Williams; when Hyde descends into the behind-closed-doors-depravity of Victorian vice, the driving club beat and glittery hedonism could come right out of Dorian Gray. Still, the moment is a welcome lightness, and the opening night audience – freshly shaken from a briefly stopped show due to a medical emergency in the audience – clung to it with whoops of pleasure and applause.
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