Just in time for Halloween, Trouble Puppet Theater Company will unveil The Strange Case of Edward Hyde and Dr. Jekyll. It's of course inspired by the classic horror tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, but it's not at all a straight adaptation.
For Trouble Puppet founder Connor Hopkins, finding a way to put an original spin on well-known stories is a welcome challenge. In the case of 'Jekyll and Hyde,' Hopkins and his team found a way to take a tale with a very well-known twist and make the story surprising and unexpected.
One notable change from the original novel, of course, is that this version of the story is performed by a cast of handcrafted puppets, the use of which allows the Trouble Puppet team to do things with special effects and scale that could never be done onstage with a human cast.
See The Strange Case of Edward Hyde and Dr. Jekyll at Salvage Theatre
