Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Fri 23 Oct
|The Dickens Suite, The Assembly Rooms
Horror is reborn in the spectacular Assembly Rooms Newcastle, as part of the venue’s landmark 250th-anniversary celebrations.
Time & Location
23 Oct 2026, 19:00 – 21:00
The Dickens Suite, The Assembly Rooms, Fenkle St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5XU, UK
About the event
October 2026 — just in time for Halloween — horror is reborn in the spectacular Assembly Rooms Newcastle as part of the venue’s landmark 250th-anniversary celebrations.
From Craig Wilde, Writer and Executive Producer — the acclaimed creator behind the sell-out sensations Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Dickens by Candlelight – A Christmas Carol — comes a bold and unsettling new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Directed by multi-award-winning Jake Murray, this intensely intimate, in-the-round production draws you terrifyingly close to a world of desire, obsession, and the monstrous alter-ego clawing to break free.
Produced by Louise Dearden and Filipe Neves Ribeiro, with costumes by Abby Wilkinson and a hauntingly atmospheric set realised by Amelia Mitchell, this thrilling new staging promises a visceral theatrical experience where no audience member is safe from the shadows.
A gripping, immersive descent into one man’s deadly double life —…
Tickets
From £26.50 to £38.50