Music Theatre Wales

This librettist-composer team offers a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson’s unsettling tale while still preserving the chilling qualities of the original text.

A magical bottle with the power to grant your heart’s desires must come with a catch; the bottle can only be sold for less than it was bought for, and whoever is left with the bottle when they die will be cast into hell for all eternity. James uses the bottle to get all he ever dreamed of, and then sells it.

Happily married to Catherine, he feels his life is complete until an awful discovery begins to unravel their life together. As the price of the bottle gets lower, a dangerous game of pass-the-parcel ensues.

Greed, despair, unconditional love and a fear of death can force people to take drastic measures in their attempts to trick fate.