Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde. During one of his audacious experiments trying to separate good from evil in human nature, the kind and gifted Dr Jekyll inadvertently unleashes an alternative personality of pure evil … the mysterious Mr Hyde. As this sinister figure starts causing terror and havoc in foggy London, Jekyll must race to find a cure for his monstrous alter-ego before it takes over for good. This version by David Edgar, first performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1996, is a revised and partially re-written version of the adaptation premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 1991.

Leseprobe

David Edgar

DR JEKYLLAND MR HYDE

a new verion of the novel by

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Epigraph

Dedication

Introduction

Characters

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

David Edgar’s adaptation of Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, on 21 November 1991. Press night was 27 November. The cast, in order of appearance, was:

GABRIEL JOHN UTTERSON, a lawyer

Oliver Ford Davies

RICHARD ENFIELD

Michael Bott

KATHERINE URQUART, Jekyll’s sister

Pippa Guard

LUCY,

}her children

Ellie Beaven/Lilly Gallafent

CHARLES,

Robert Jones/Mark Turnley

ANNIE LODER, her maid

Katrina Levon

DR HENRY JEKYLL, FRS

Roger Allam

POOLE, his butler

John Bott

DR HASTIE LANYON

Alec Linstead

MR HYDE

Simon Russell Beale

A MAID

Lucy Slater

SIR DANVERS CAREW, MP

Leonard Kavanagh

A PARSON

John Hodgkinson

RAILWAY GUARD

Troy Webb

BOATMEN

Simon ElliottTroy Webb

BOATWOMAN

Corinne Harris

CHILDREN

Natalia CerqueiraKendal Gaw, Kitty Healey,Johannah Playford

Director

Peter Wood

Set Designer

Carl Toms

Costume Designer

Johan Engels

Lighting

David Hersey

Music

Robert Lockhart

This fully revised and partially re-written version, now called Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, was first performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 28 June 1996. Press night was 2 July. The cast, in order of appearance, was:

GABRIEL JOHN UTTERSON

Paul Webster

RICHARD ENFIELD, PARSON

Paul Connolly

LUCY, MAID, WOMAN on platform

Verity Bray

CHARLES, Lucy’s brother

Christopher Trezise

KATHERINE URQUART, their mother

Francesca Ryan

ANNIE LODER, a parlourmaid

Annie Farr

DR HENRY JEKYLL, EDWARD HYDE

David Schofield

POOLE, Dr Jekyll’s butler

Geoffrey Freshwater

DR LANYON, SIR DANVERS CAREW

Desmond Jordan

Director

Bill Alexander

Designer

Ruari Murchinson

Fight Director

Malcolm Ranson

Lighting

Tim Mitchell

Music

Jonathan Goldstein

Music player by

Simon Murray

Dialect Coach

Jill McCollough

Stage Management

Sally Isern

Lisa Buckley

Jonathan Smith-Howard

‘In 1885 Gilles de Tourette, a pupil of Charcot, described the astonishing syndrome which now bears his name. “Tourette’s syndrome” as it was immediately dubbed, is characterised by an excess of nervous energy, and a great production and extravagance of strange motions and notions: tics, jerks, mannerisms, grimaces, noises, curses, involuntary imitations and compulsions of all sorts, with an odd elfin humour and a tendency to antic and outlandish kinds of play . . . it was clear to Tourette and his peers, that this syndrome was a sort of possession by primitive impulses and urges.’

Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

‘Certain scandals about London which were revealed by the Pall Mall Gazette in 1885 seemed at the time to prove that the attribution of sadism as an English characteristic was by no means merely arbitrary. In its issues of July 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th, 1885, there was published in this paper a series of articles entitled “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon”, in which were exposed the results of an inquiry into youthful prostitution in London. The moving spirit of this campaign, which was intended to provoke Government measures for the protection of minors, was the journalist W.T. Stead . . . The paragraphs which made the greatest impression were those which dealt with sadism – “Why the cries of the victims are not heard”, and “Strapping girls down”: these paragraphs were considerably abridged when the collected articles were put on sale.’

Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony

In the autumn of 1885 Robert Louis Stevenson was living at Bournemouth, where he dreamt – and then wrote – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

From Stevenson, to KatherineFrom me, to Kate

Introduction

At the beginning of the 80s, I wrote an extremely long adaptation of a huge early Victorian novel for the Royal Shakespeare Company. There seemed to be a symmetry about the fact that at the end of the 80s I was working on if not a short then at least a reasonably-lengthed version of a novella written towards the end of Victoria’s reign.