Jekyll and Hyde  by Leonard H. Caddy 

23^rd – 26^th April 2008 at the Memorial Hall, Little Baddow at 8.00pm

Tickets:                      Wed/Thur £6,  Fri/Sat £7
Box Office:                01245 225246

 This retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous story opens with Dr Jekyll conducting a medical experiment on himself:  can he discover the right mixture of drugs which will reveal his true inner self and free him from the cloak of convention?  The answer is a tragic yes.  His formula unleashes the monstrous Edward Hyde and Dr Jekyll soon finds out that he can’t get the genie back in the bottle. He revisits his darker side more and more until he realises that he is not the one in control.  His family, friends and servants watch in horror as the good Dr Jekyll is destroyed by his alter ego.

Come with us on a nightmarish journey through the underworld of Victorian repressed sexuality and violence.  Like all good horror stories, Jekyll and Hyde explores the concerns of its age:  the uncontrollable power of scientific progress, the threat posed by a violent underclass and the horrors of drug addiction – concerns which are still with us today.

Director John Peregrine feels the story is really about the two sides of everyone’s personality and so the change between Jekyll and Hyde is a psychological one which will be the emphasis of this production.

The cast are finding the challenge invigorating and the play has encouraged new people to join us including Robert Bastion who will be playing Jekyll and Hyde.  Other cast members include Lindsay Lloyd who plays Jekyll’s fiancé, Celestine, Ken Rolf as Jekyll’s uncle Lanyon and Paul Randall as the lawyer Utterson.

Below stairs we have Sarah Trippett-Jones as the maid Charlotte who tries to help Jekyll but finds tragedy instead.  Barbara Newton, who usually works behind the scenes, is Hilda, another maid, while Kenton Church is Poole, the butler.  Gill Peregrine playing the part of Penny, a woman of the streets, feels she needs all her acting skills for this demanding role.

LITTLE BADDOW DRAMA’s production runs from Wednesday 23^rd April to Saturday 26th April in the Memorial Hall at Little Baddow at 8.00pm

 There’s a bar and plenty of free parking

 For any further details contact: 

John Peregrine:        01621 852029                       jandgperegrine@madasafish.com

Alison Woollard:        01245 421729                      a.woollard@virgin.net