Casting Performers for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Play

Mansfield is the celebrated Victorian actor presenting the evening’s entertainment; Jekyll is brilliant, cultivated, and increasingly desperate; Hyde is dangerous, mercurial, and disturbingly alive. Requires exceptional physical and vocal transformation and a strong relationship with the audience.

Jekyll’s fiancée and Sir Danvers Carew’s daughter. Intelligent, compassionate, and determined; her love for Jekyll is tested by mounting evidence connecting him to her father’s murderer.

Utterson is Jekyll’s friend and lawyer: rational, observant, persistent, and deeply loyal. Newcome is a Scotland Yard inspector: shrewd, energetic, and comic without being a fool.

Jekyll’s physician and old friend. Intelligent, skeptical, humane, and firmly conventional in his science; his certainty is shattered when he is forced to witness the impossible.

Carew is Agnes’s father: a warm, bluff, spirited old soldier with a quick temper and great affection for his daughter. Poole is Jekyll’s devoted servant: practical, watchful, loyal, and increasingly alarmed by what is happening to his master.

Three sharply differentiated women. Mrs. Jarvis is Carew’s capable and knowing housekeeper; Rebecca is Hyde’s hard-bitten Soho landlady, suspicious, acquisitive, and nobody’s fool; Mrs. Lanyon is socially conventional, outspoken, and formidable.