Henry Pettigrew and Lorn Macdonald in The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Photo: Courtesy of Eiff Hope Dickson Leach’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde premieres on Sky Arts at 9pm on October 30. It’s the final destination of the reimagining of the Robert Louis Stevenson that began as a hybrid theatre piece and then screened in cinemas. Her retelling, co-adapted with Vlad Butucea, offers a change from the usual sight of Dr Jekyll (Henry Pettigrew) growing fur and turning monstrous in his lab in favour of coming at the story more from Stevenson’s original perspective of lawyer Gabriel Utterson (Lorn Macdonald), who finds himself becoming increasingly morally compromised as the tale progresses. We can’t up with Dickson Leach to talk about creating the hybrid film with the National Theatre of Scotland and coming at it from a different angle after...
- 10/29/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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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.
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.
- 1/18/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Hope Dickson Leach, BAFTA-winning director of acclaimed Toronto, Rotterdam and London festival selection “The Levelling,” has embarked upon a hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Leach and co-writer Vlad Butucea have transposed the story from London to Victorian Edinburgh. The story follows Gabriel Utterson as he enters a world of dark duplicity to uncover the identity of the mysterious Mr. Hyde and the hold he has over Utterson’s old friend Dr Jekyll. The adaptation has been developed with theater dramaturg Rosie Kellagher. The casting will be revealed imminently.
The adaptation will kick off as a theatrical live experience, where audiences will enter a live filmset built within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, over Feb. 25, 26 and 27, 2022. Following the final performance on Feb. 27, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” will be livestreamed to selected Scottish cinemas.
Leach and co-writer Vlad Butucea have transposed the story from London to Victorian Edinburgh. The story follows Gabriel Utterson as he enters a world of dark duplicity to uncover the identity of the mysterious Mr. Hyde and the hold he has over Utterson’s old friend Dr Jekyll. The adaptation has been developed with theater dramaturg Rosie Kellagher. The casting will be revealed imminently.
The adaptation will kick off as a theatrical live experience, where audiences will enter a live filmset built within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, over Feb. 25, 26 and 27, 2022. Following the final performance on Feb. 27, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” will be livestreamed to selected Scottish cinemas.
- 12/16/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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