TNT Theater from the UK is set to return to Vietnam with a stifling thriller comedy, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City early next month.

The play, to take place at Hanoi Opera House at 7:00 pm on Mar 4, and HCMC Opera House at 7:00 pm on Mar 6, 7 and 8, is a theatrical adaptation of the 1886 novella of the same name by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Directed by Paul Stebbings and choreographed by Eric Tessier-Lavigne, the play is a brilliant fuse of theater, movie and music and adopts the styles of Victorian times’ romantic plays, detective thrillers and silent movies.

The play also accentuates the moral and spiritual values which the novella addresses, while provoking satirical laughter and profound thoughts among audiences.

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” revolves around a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates bizarre occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.

The work is commonly associated with “split personality”, a mental condition where there exists more than one distinct personality within the same person.

Dr Jekyll has two diametrically different personalities within himself, one apparently good and the other evil. The novella has such a profound social impact that the phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” now means a person whose character varies vastly in different situations.

Tickets, which sell from VND250,000 to 600,000 (up to US$30), are available at 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi; 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, District 1; and 32 Nguyen Thai Hoc, District 1, HCMC.

TNT Theater has earlier performed some famous classic plays in Vietnam.