Pitlochry Festival Theatre to premiere Hannah Lavery's new adaptation of JEKYLL & HYDE

Pitlochry Festival Theatre have announced today that they will be presenting an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Jekyll and Hyde from 18 August to 8 September.

The show will be adapted by Hannah Lavery and directed by Amy Liptrott, and will show theatre audiences a new side to the story with a retelling from the point of view of the women of the story.

Jekyll and Hyde will performed as a monologue by Alicia McKenzie in the theatre’s beautiful outdoor amphitheatre. McKenzie is returning to Pitlochry after performing there in 2019 productions of The Crucible, Summer Holiday, Blonde Bombshells of 1943 and North and South.

Playwright Hannah Lavery said: “Reading Jekyll and Hyde again, I was struck by the women at the edges of the story, and I began to wonder what would happen if these women were to tell the story, their story. If his cook, his servant, his victim, his landlady, his witness, were to be given the space to speak. And as this adaptation was to be a monologue, I was keen to show the women take their form, manifest in front of the audience, giving voice to these previously silenced women, and thus allowing me to explore the good and the evil, the duality of this good man, from the perspectives of the women who stood watching him, fearing him from the shadows and the edges of his life and his world.”

Lavery is a playwright, poet, performer and director with her theatre credits including The Drift, which toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2019 season. Her poetry has been widely published and her poem ‘Scotland, You’re No Mine’ was selected as one of the Best Scottish Poems 2019.

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