Event

Chemical Imbalance

DESCRIPTION: Back by popular demand after its SOLD-OUT RUN in 2006, "Chemical Imbalance" returns for a limited engagement at the EXIT Theatre!

"Chemical Imbalance" is an original play by Lauren Wilson based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". In this comedy of horrors, director Matthew Graham Smith, an associate artist with the Dell'ÂÂarte Company, leads a delightful ensemble of nine comic actors in the highly stylized conventions of farce and Grand Guignol (a theatrical genre akin to cinema's splatter-film). Their manic, highly physical and comedically disturbing romp through Dr. Jekyls schizophrenic journey has been described as "Rousing horror-farce...[that] comes through with both laughs and terror" (Laurie Bushman, SF Bay Times).

As in Stevenson's novel, the plot twists around a learned upper class doctor who experiments with a potion that neatly divides the good and bad sides of human nature. In Wilson's version of the tale, Victorian London is the seat of a global empire on the verge of collapse, one which relies on several forms of social repression to keep its home population under control while the empire expands abroad. Murder, mayhem, and crumpets abound in this romp through an empire on the verge of collapse and a man tight-rope-walking the line of aristocracy and depravity.

Precarious Theatre features the talents of Elizabeth Bullard, Christian Cagagil, Andrew Calabrese, Erin Carter, Gabriel Diamond, Ben Dziuba, Hannah Knapp, Nicole Lungerhausen, and Sarah Meyeroff.