dr Jekyll Hyde

Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Rankin traces the roots of this story, which stretches back to Stevenson's childhood. Grave-robbers, hallucinatory drugs and prostitution all play their part in the disturbing account of Henry Jekyll's double-life, as Rankin's journey takes him into the yeasty draughts and unlit closes of the city that inspired the tale - Edinburgh.

A portrait of a remarkable artist. American painter Alice Neel was an extraordinary and prolific figurative painter, and yet she spent most of her life working in obscurity, struggling as a single mother to survive. Born in 1900, Neel portrayed the 20th century until her death in 1984. She painted the people around her, on the margins of society, as well as her own hard, complicated and sometimes broken life. So many of her own traumas were compounded by her uncompromising need to paint: 'I had to paint', she said, and always at great personal cost.

Quest'opera è considerata il capolavoro di Robert Louis Stevenson. Il dramma del Dottor Jekyll è quello dell'uomo che prova ad esplorare il suo lato oscuro e che, inevitabilmente, ne viene risucchiato. Storia dai tratti oscuri e terribili, ha lasciato un segno profondo nell'immaginario collettivo soprattutto grazie al personaggio Mister Hyde, diventato una vera e propria icona grazie alla sua eccezionale caratterizzazione: Hyde da sempre affascina il grande pubblico dato che rappresenta il lato nascosto dentro all'animo di ognuno di noi…