After his father's death, he established his own company, that included his wife, and toured most provincial cities, playing mainly repeats of Sir Henry Irving's best remembered performances. For the opening night of the new King's Theatre in Southsea he presented "Charles I", "The Bells" and "The Lyons Mail". Occasionally, other plays were presented including, most successfully, "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" at the Queen's Theatre, London. Film historian Troy Howarth writes "Some sources credit (Irving), who played Jekyll and Hyde on stage, as the director of "The Duality of Man" (a 1910 British film adaptation of the Jekyll and Hyde story)...".