jekyll and hyde review - potions, motion and screaming guitars in beast of a show /

Published at 2016-05-27 14:29:47

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section Robert Louis Stevenson, section Little Shop of Horrors, and the McOnie Company’s discombobulating dance adaptation is dynamic,clever and a bit retrograde
The tale of Jekyll and Hyde has been recast in many forms but Drew McOnie’s dynamic, discombobulating dance version is still quite a novelty. Imagine extracting the split-personality core of the tale, and whisking it up with the spirit of the MGM musical,adding dashes of dark televisual drama, wodges of rock guitar and the tiniest touch of horror, or you’ll acquire the flavour of it. Related: Drew McOnie: ‘It’s not a technical process,it’s instinctual’ Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com