NEWSLETTER
Inspired by Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
New York, N.Y. - Gothic feminist playwright Patricia Lynn’s new play HYDE (Or Girls Can Kill Goats) will have a workshop production September 24 - 26 at A.R.T./New York Theatres. The play is a bold contemporary reimagining of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. A delightfully dangerous mix of Yellowjackets and John Proctor is a Villain, HYDE transforms the classic tale of good vs evil into a fierce feminist frenzy, featuring heightened language, vivid theatricality, and a vengeful goat goddess named Bernice Hyde. Lynn also serves as director.
HYDE (Or Girls Can Kill Goats) is a workshop production where actors will perform with book-in-hand, but with full staging and technical elements. There will be a brief talkback after the Thursday and Friday performance, so audience feedback can be incorporated into the next phase of development.
After a tenacious journalist threatens to expose her vibrant but violent past, Jane Patterson attends her twenty-year college reunion in hopes of confronting him face-to-face. But the night does not go as she expects. Jane drowns herself in drugs, old friends, and the memories of her delicious witchy youth instead. And Jane starts to wonder what she should do. Should she keep her secret life buried inside? Or is it finally time for her truth to come out to the light? And the truth is: she is BERNICE HYDE…
Performances are scheduled for Thursday, September 24, Friday, September 25 at 7:30pm and Saturday September 26 at 2pm. Running time: 2:10 (including intermission). The Mezzanine Theatre, A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 W. 53rd Street, NYC. Tickets are $6.66 and are currently on sale. Recommended for ages 13+ .
The cast features Victoria M. Fragnito, Patrick T. Horn, Katharine Maness, and Monica Rounds. The creative/production team includes Randall Benichak (sound), Austin Boyle (lighting), Al Foote III (fight choreographer), Patrick T. Horn (mask/movement director), Hannah Polaski (technical director), Jenn Susi (intimacy director), and Heather Olmstead (stage management).
Patricia Lynn (Writer/Director) is a NYC-based theater-maker who fancies herself to be a gothic feminist; she creates provocative and socially relevant plays inspired by 19th-century British gothic literature. Her plays have been developed and/or performed at Triad Stage, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Duluth Playhouse, The Secret Theatre, A.R.T./New York Theatres, Rogue Theater Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and Elephant Room Productions. As a director, Patricia has worked at The Secret Theatre, Paradise Factory Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse, Access Theatre, and Hunger & Thirst Theatre. Patricia holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and a MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep. @pattielynnlynn I www.patriciamlynn.com
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