Mrs Jekyll

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By turns tender and devastating, Mrs Jekyll contorts Stevenson's gothic classic in a sumptuous and shocking account of modern womanhood. Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. Her hus band Charlie offers all the relief he can. Rosy's sister-in-law, Sally, offers none. But Rosy feels something growing in her. A hard knot in her chest. Beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligations, the snatched whispers on wards and in staffrooms, a force - murderous, feminine, feverish - is stirring within her... Show more