The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Multimedia Theatre Production after Robert Louis Stevenson

London, 1886: The popular and ambitious Dr. Jekyll experiments with forbidden substances and transforms into his malevolent counterpart, Mr. Hyde. Soon London is plagued by brutal murders.

MediaBühne brings Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous Gothic novel to the stage as a multimedia animated novella - in an expanded narrative version. Stevenson's work offers intelligent and subversive critique of repressed Victorian society, whose suppressed passions form the tragic foundation of Jekyll's character. Despite - or perhaps because of - these socially critical undertones, "Dr. Jekyll" became a major success during Stevenson's lifetime and remains the most prominent embodiment of the doppelgänger motif in horror literature, film, and comics.

The production combines first-rate actors, animated sequences, and a lavish soundtrack into a projection theatre art that exists between theatrical cinema, live synchronization, and staged reading.