Booking opens for cinema screenings of thrilling new film/theatre production of JEKYLL & HYDE

Booking opens today at selected Scottish and UK cinemas for live and encore screenings of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, live from Leith Theatre in Edinburgh. Over sixty cinemas across Scotland and the UK will be screening this new Scottish feature with more to follow. 

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a thrilling new hybrid version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, conceived and directed by award-winning filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach. Presented by the National Theatre of Scotland and Selkie Productions, in association with Screen Scotland and Sky Arts, and starring a cast of leading Scottish stage and screen talent, this unique new hybrid retelling uses innovative theatrical and cinematic techniques to create a theatrical live screen experience. This is the first livestream film created and set in Scotland to be seen by cinema audiences.

This exciting new cinema/theatre hybrid production will be streamed as live from Leith Theatre into selected cinemas on Sunday 27 February 2022, with encore screenings from 28 February.

Screenings will be available at cinemas and venues all across Scotland and the UK, including LythArts Centre, Caithness; The Pickaquoy Cinema, Orkney; An Lanntair, Stornoway, and at Odeon cinemas everywhere from Edinburgh to Epsom, Braehead to Belfast, and Cardiff to Covent Garden. There will also be a screening at the UK’s most northerly cinema and arts centre, Mareel in Shetland and at community cinemas across Scotland. 

Leading Scottish actors Lorn Macdonald and Henry Pettigrew take on the roles of Utterson and Dr Jekyll, supported by Tam Dean Burn, Caroline Deyga, Lois Hagerty, David Hayman, Scott Miller, Alison Peebles, Peter Singh and Ali Watts. 

Performance footage will later be edited into a full feature film, which will receive its TV premiere on Sky Arts in 2023.