The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, director Hope Dickson Leach’s new version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story, co-written with Vlad Butucea, will be shown at selected cinemas in Scotland and UK, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August 2023 and will subsequently be broadcast on Sky Arts (Freeview) on 30 October at 9pm. Adapted from the original novella and relocated from London to Edinburgh, this film is a National Theatre of Scotland and Selkie Productions supported by Screen Scotland and Sky Arts. The film is distributed in cinemas by Cosmic Cat.
Filmed largely within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was originally presented in February 2022 as a performed live, filmic experience in the venue.
Filmed largely within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was originally presented in February 2022 as a performed live, filmic experience in the venue.
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00:00 [dramatic music]
00:02 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
00:08 is a story about being two things at once.
00:11 And this production, from Selki Productions
00:14 and the National Theatre of Scotland,
00:16 is also two things at once.
00:18 Audiences watched it live in Leith Theatre,
00:22 watched the actors run from set to set,
00:26 watched the cameras track them around,
00:29 reposition, start a scene, stop a scene,
00:33 and all of it was playing out live on a screen
00:36 in front of them as it was being vision mixed outside.
00:39 We now have a film, and hopefully it's seamless.
00:45 Hopefully you can't tell that it was live.
00:48 But the energy, the performance,
00:51 the momentum of that live event
00:54 is still at the very heart of our monstrous hybrid.
00:58 We have stepped up.
00:59 [screaming]
01:01 That's it, we're done here, get the hell out of my house!
01:04 [dramatic music]
01:08 [growling]
01:10 [dramatic music]
01:13 [dramatic music]
01:16 [dramatic music]
01:19 [dramatic music]
01:21 [dramatic music]
01:24 [BLANK_AUDIO]