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I'm Daria Davis and I'm in the second year of my directing MFA here at UT-Austin.
I'm directing "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", which is an adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
This adaption that we're working is written by the playwright Jeffrey Hatcher.
What speaks to a modern audience is this sense that there is no true self. There is only ways we wish to be or ways be don't wish to be.
And it's how we gather those different wishes together that makes us who we are.
And I think it makes Jekyll far more accessible and it makes Hyde far more accessible.
And I think those are really useful things because at the end of the day, you're left with a question of what is good, what is bad.
Can we actually really distill those things down? Or is it a far more complicated messy thing?