Utterson the lawyer has a strange case on his hands. One involving blackmail, murder most foul – and his close friend Doctor Henry Jekyll. Slowly, through snatches of conversation, interview and confession, we uncover the grisly facts that link the celebrated doctor to the monstrous Mr Hyde. But in this fantastical narrative, what can possibly be the truth?

Recorded at the Ropetackle Storytellers club in Shoreham-by-Sea, award-winning performers Amelia Armande and Joshua Crisp reanimate the classic horror by Robert Louis Stevenson, blending the original text with sinuous physicality and dark humour as they morph seamlessly between characters, and conjure from their imaginations the misty, murky streets of Stevenson’s Victorian London.
Ropetackle Storytellers is Shoreham's spoken word storytelling club. Founded by Amelia Ace Armande and Joshua Crisp, the club celebrates folklore, mythology and legend, with tales from club regulars and outstanding guest storytellers from all across the UK and beyond.

Cast:
Amelia Ace Armande (they/them)
Ace trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with recent credits including ITV’s Grace, BBC’s The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies, the award-winning comedy podcast Seancecast, and award-winning production of Clean: The Musical. They have toured internationally as a storyteller with publishing company Helbling, and been a featured teller at Get A Word in Edgeways Spoken Word Festival, Queer Spirit Festival, Xanthe Gresham’s Goddess Lounge, and on the tour of Women Who Gave No F*cks. They are a mentor storyteller for the Step Up Commission, and a regional finalist for the Hammer & Tongue poetry slam 2024.

Joshua Crisp (he/him)
Joshua has become known for his epic one-man retellings of Greek Myths, including Jason & the Argonauts (2024) and The Labours of Hercules (2025). He is winner of an Argus Angel for his performance of Young Man in Bash by Neil Labute, FringeReview Award for Outstanding Theatre as part of the Brighton Shakespeare Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor to Derek Jacobi in the short film The Man Who Tried To Steal an Island. He regularly features as a writer on the flash-fiction podcast 100 Words of Astounding Beauty.

Music Credits
"SCP-x5x (Outer Thoughts)" and "SCP-x6x (Hopes)"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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