“He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” — Nietzsche

Hartford Stage sets ablaze the black and white notion of good and evil with a shrill and provocative interpretation of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde. This production, under the direction of Melia Bensussen, opens Hartford Stage’s 24/25 season with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde like you’ve never seen them before. This iteration of Stevenson’s gothic psychological thriller warns us of the danger of labeling the worst of humanity in ways that shelves our own innate propensity for darkness.

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