Not that I've been wishing the year away but October is a milestone month for theatre excitement and the start of fabulous run up to the festive season. In my book anyway.

October is RII DT (as I believe it is vogue to call it) in Stratford and then London in December. October is also sexy spy number one (Matthew Macfadyen) and Stephen Mangan in Jeeves and Wooster. And October is also Mojo month. Yes, a second stage outing in the same year for Mr Whishaw and Colin Morgan which I'm stupidly excited about for reasons already expressed here.

But if all that wasn't enough then in November we have Let The Right One In at the Royal Court which is about the only thing in the season there that I'm really excited to see and in December Coriolanus at the Donmar (rehearsal pics with Tom Hiddleston looking handy with a sword just released).

I may have just exploded by the time Chrimble comes around although I'm hoping to have recovered in time for New Year's Eve which I plan to spend in the Atlantic Club ;0)

Flipping The Bird's re-imagining of the famous Jekyll and Hyde story garnered five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and has now transferred to the Southwark Playhouse for a short run. In it playwright Jonathan Holloway has turned Dr Jekyll into a woman conducting mysterious experiments the result of which are graphically revealed towards the end of the piece.

The Jekyll and Hyde story, still set in Victorian times, is introduced by two sort of narrators the premise being one is trying to buy Jekyll's diary from the other. They also play various instruments - a live soundtrack to help generate atmosphere to this supposedly creepy and grim tale.

The problem is that the notes in the programme from director Jessica Edwards make the play sound far more interesting than it actually is. The characters feel under developed, for example, Edwards would have us believe that the female Dr Jekyll violently alters herself as a response to the restrictions on women during the Victorian age when, in fact, her behaviour just comes across as a bit odd and the plot overly contrived.