Scottish actors Lorn Macdonald and Henry Pettigrew are to star in director Hope Dickson Leach’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Victorian gothic novella, The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde.
The tale will relocate from London to Edinburgh, with Beats actor Macdonald and star of BBC series Guilt Pettigrew taking on the roles of Utterson and Dr Jekyll, supported by a cast including Tam Dean Burn, Caroline Deyga, Lois Hagerty, David Hayman, Scott Miller, Alison Peebles, Peter Singh and Ali Watts. It is written by Dickson Leach and Vlad Butucea.
The adaptation will first be performed as a live theatrical experience at the Leith Theatre in Edinburgh from February 25-27.
Theatrical rights have been acquired by Glasgow-based distributor Cosmic Cat, who will stream the performance ‘as live’ in cinemas across Scotland and the rest of the UK on February 27, with encore screenings on February 28. An edited film will be shown on UK TV channel Sky Arts in autumn of 2023.
The project is a collaboration between the National Theatre of Scotland and Selkie Productions in association with Screen Scotland and Sky Arts.
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