Henry Jekyll's Chemical Imbalance

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The live play titled Chemical Imbalance is a story of a young unmarried son of a wealthy family named Henry Jekyll. He conducts experiments that attempt to separate the components that dictate whether we are controlled by the evil or the good inside of us. Henry believes that he has found the potion that will be able to so this but instead this leads to chaos, where he ends up committing crimes due to his evil half that was created when he drank the potion.
As soon as I walked in into the theater I knew that I was going to see a great show. The set was neat and well organized, the furniture emphasized the era at which the play was going to take place, which attracted me the most because I like to see classic

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