"Jekyll and Hyde" is coming back..god producer Kim Taewoo joins us

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The play "Jekyll and Hyde" will return to the reenactment stage this year, with the first stage successfully performed last year.

The play "Jekyll and Hyde" is a reinterpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Dr. Jekyll and Hyde" in the form of a one-man play, and at the time of its premiere, it drew attention with its minimal stage, intense narrative, and dense acting of actors. The story unfolds from the point of view of his close friend and lawyer, Utterson, not the main character of the original, "Jekyll," and unravels the secrets and conflicts between "Jekyll" and "Hyde" and the resulting events from a new perspective.

At the premiere in Korea in 2025, it received the attention of the audience and critics due to the dense narrative that goes beyond the limits of the form of a one-person play and the overwhelming concentration of the actor. It completed a tense narrative with only minimal stage equipment, actors' gestures, and language, drawing evaluation as "a work that newly defines the aesthetics of a single-person play."

The play 'Jekyll and Hyde' is different from the spectacular spectacle of the musical of the same name. Focusing on the genre tension of mystery and thriller, the character's inner conflict and human nature, it symbolically embodies the character's psychology through minimal stage equipment and props. Director Lee Jun-woo said, "This work is a story that penetrates the essence of human beings to the end. Based on the power of the work confirmed in the first performance, the actor's breathing, emotional lines, and stage language are refined in the reenactment to convey good, evil, and human duality in depth." "Through the form of a one-man play, the audience will fully face the process of a character collapsing and dividing," he said.

Bae Soo-bin, Jeong Dong-hwa, Jung Wook-jin, and Cha Jung-woo will appear on the 2026 reenactment stage. All four actors are 'Performers' who single-handedly digest the various characters in the play, completing different resolutions, Jekyll, Hyde, and Utterson.

"Jekyll & Hyde" in the 2026 season will be newly produced by Gemstone ENM, a general entertainment company in which god members Denian, Son Ho-young and Kim Tae-woo are involved. After announcing his debut as a producer of the musical "The Hague" on the 9th, Kim Tae-woo will also join the play "Jekyll & Hyde" as a producer and act as an all-around entertainer and producer across genres and fields.

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