Programme Details
Always a popular event, Visiting Professor, composer and film historian Neil Brand demonstrates the art of improvisation with his students John Barrymore’s thrilling 1920 classic, based on Robert Louis Stephenson’s gothic novel.
Directed by John S. Robertson
Screenplay by Clara Beranger
Original stage adaptation Thomas Russell Sullivan
Dominika Mak, Simo Šiševic, Sherri Lun, Emanuil Ivanov, Benjamin Lock, Andra Bǎcilǎ piano
'The famous Shakespearean actor John Barrymore shoulders the dual roles of man and monster in this hugely popular, fantastic adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novella. Fellow stage thespian Brandon Hurst plays Jekyll’s leering colleague Dr Carew, while vamp Nita Naldi is the dance-hall darling who brings out his inner Hyde. The intertitles ramp up the tension, they are also casting a moral burden out to the audience: ‘In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose.’ BFI
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