Loud Mouth Theatre Company present ‘JEKYLL & HYDE’ …
by Jessica davies …
28 year old Blackman’s Bay UTAS student Jessica Davies, a long time lover of Gothic Horror and English literature adapts Jekyll & Hyde with feminist twist and gathers a stellar local cast for her first play, a collaboration between Loud Mouth theatre company and UTAS.
At a glance …
DIRECTOR
Maeve Mhairi MacGregor
SOUND DESIGN
Gareth Dawson
CAST
Bryony Geeves, Benjamin Winckle, Bella Young, Ivano Del Pio, Sara Pensalfini and Jesse Dugan
November 9 – 25 | The Goods Shed, 12 Evans St Macquarie Point
THE GIST
Jekyll & Hyde has been adapted by local writer Jessica Davies after R L Stevenson, as part of an honours thesis supervised by Danielle Wood and Rosemary Gaby through the University of Tasmania.
I knew myself to be wicked, and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine. Under the strain of my continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
Quotes from THE WRITER – Jessica davies
“The thing about female criminals that interested me the most was that people just didn’t want to admit that they existed. I read about a woman in the Victorian era who killed 20 people… it was never reported as, oh she’s just evil. People didn’t want to believe that women could be capable of that because they were seen as such a pillar of morality. So either a man had to tell her to do it, or she was ‘crazy’.”
On Jekyll being played by a woman (local actor Bryony Geeves) “Even in slasher films, women don’t get to be the hero unless they are of pure morals. Women don’t get to be Freddy Kruger, and that bothered me. I wanted Jekyll to be pure evil simply because she could.”
“I hope audiences leave the theatre with questions. Was she good? Was she bad?”
THE ONES BEHIND THE MADNESS
Loud Mouth is a Tasmania-based theatre company committed to producing new, collaborative and professional theatre experiences.
THE PRICE YOU HAVE TO PAY
http://www.centertainment.com.au/events/jekyll
$15 – $25
Pay What You Want (Door Sales Only) is Thursday November 9th, 7:30pm
Katie Robertson, Marketing and PR Manager
