When Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was published in 1886, it sparked a new way of looking at the human psyche and inspired the term “split personality.” Now Synetic Theater has taken Stevenson’s novel about a good scientist who discovers an evil streak within himself and created a “Jekyll & Hyde” without words.

Dr. Jekyll is a scientist who uses a collection of artificially intelligent human-mechanical-hybrids in an effort to reveal secrets of the soul. At the start of the play, Jekyll (Alex Mills) is a “normal” man who, after a ball, proposes to his fiancee (Brittany O’Grady).