Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Georg Osterman

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Synopsis

Secret Psycho Seized reads the headline of the Coxsackie Tattler.

A mild mannered librarian has brutally butchered sixteen and one half people.

The distinguished pneuro physicist Dr. Henry Jekyll believes this is a case of a rare theoretical disease called quantum synaptic dualism.

He ingests a special concoction that changes the good doctor into a loathsome stand up comedian whose act trades on violence, misogyny, homophobia and ethnic slurs.

Reset in Coxsackie, U.S.A, this is not the story that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote.

Even the moral of the tale is altered when Jekyll's noble self sacrifice is vanquished by Hyde's towering corruption.

Characters

Character
MINERVA (Jekyll's maid)

the Jekyll's maid. A tough cookie.

MARY JEKYLL (Henry's wife)

Henry's wife. A little on the dizzy side.

DR HENRY JEKYLL

a brilliant scientish and devoted husband.

DR BERNICE BRAINTWAIN

Henry's associate and close friend.

LILY GAY

a pretty night club singer/opera instructor.

ACULINE (Bernice's lover)

a beautiful black night club owner. Bernice's lover.

EDDIE HYDE

the wickedest man in all Coxsackie. A real sleaze-bag.

JEHOVAH'S WITNESS

an innocent bystander/fire-and-brimstone spouter.

COCO

a caged monkey in Henry's lab.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1990
Binding Paperback
Pages 91
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573691966
ISBN-10 0573691967
LCCN 91213290
LCC PS3565.S823 D7 1990
DCC 812/.54

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a American comedy play written by Georg Osterman and published by Samuel French in New York (1990).

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