{"id":493,"date":"2005-07-30T20:58:54-04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T01:58:54+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/30\/london-fringe-2005-the-strange-history-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde"},"modified":"2005-08-10T22:32:30-04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T03:32:30+00:00","slug":"london-fringe-2005-the-strange-history-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/07\/30\/london-fringe-2005-the-strange-history-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde\/","title":{"rendered":"London Fringe 2005: The Strange History of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.&nbsp;Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>It&#8217;s something to see when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jorn-bjorn.com\/\">Jorn-Bjorn Fuller-Gee<\/a> climbs the walls of the Spriet Theatre. His Hyde runs the streets of the other London with such wild-eyed abandon that it&#8217;s genuinely scary, and Jekyll&#8217;s early dismissal of his alter ego&#8217;s <q>disreputable<\/q> actions borders on the psychopathic itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Jekyll and Hyde story is often remembered as simply being about the transformations, but Iain MacFarlane&#8217;s script and <ins datetime=\"2005-08-02T00:04:00-05:00\">Iain Ormsby-Knox&#8217;s<\/ins> direction don&#8217;t sidestep the acts that Hyde performs. Hyde&#8217;s first crime is made disturbingly real on stage, and the savagery of another attack is truly horrific.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>To those (like me) who have met Fuller-Gee on the street, he seems the most unlikely person possible to play the monster, and only slightly less so Dr. Jekyll. Don&#8217;t let those impressions sway you: he embodies both characters so completely it&#8217;s hard to believe the actor himself isn&#8217;t seriously deranged.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonfringe.ca\/forums\/viewtopic.php?p=37&amp;highlight=#37\">previous review<\/a> calls this show <q>a masterpiece<\/q>; I submit that may be an understatement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><ins datetime=\"2005-08-02T00:04:00-05:00\">(Apologies to Iain Ormsby-Knox, who I inadvertently combined with Iain MacFarlane!)<\/ins><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s something to see when Jorn-Bjorn Fuller-Gee climbs the walls of the Spriet Theatre. His Hyde runs the streets of the other London with such wild-eyed abandon that it&#8217;s genuinely scary, and Jekyll&#8217;s early dismissal of his alter ego&#8217;s disreputable actions borders on the psychopathic itself. The Jekyll and Hyde story is often remembered as&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}