Showing at The Gordon Craig Theatre…
Rumpus Theatre Company
presents a spine-tingling whodunnit…
THE RIPPER FILES!
Based on the world’s most famous case.
Inspector Lestrange is up to his neck in evidence but there’s one fact only the Ripper himself will know…
CHARLES WILLIAM LESTRANGE was a newly promoted Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police, just transferred to H Division in Whitechapel, when THE AUTUMN OF TERROR, as it came to be known, reached its grizzly height.
Now, thirteen years later, and ably assisted by SAMUEL EDWARDS, formerly Detective Constable Edwards of H Division, and Samuel Edward’s “close friend” Miss ELSIE FORDHAM, rising star of the music hall stage, Lestrange rehearses again for your delectation and delight the ghoulish events in Victorian Whitechapel
which have been a source of universal fascination since the 1880’s.
Anyone wishing to leave the auditorium during the performance as a consequence of excessive fright or terror is respectfully requested not to do so in the middle of a “murder”!
JACK’S BACK…
AND HE JUST CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY!
The Cast
David Gilbrook
Mark Pearce
Sarah Wynne
Reviews
Review Quotes -
“magnificent ... this unusual who-dunnit gripped like steel ... I literally jumped out of my seat” (Thanet Gazette)
"fun, but not for the faint-hearted ... the first night audience was engrossed … David Gilbrook shines in the leading role of Charles Lestrange" (Derbyshire Times)
“an unexpectedly chilling climax finished off a fine piece of theatre” (TheLatest.co.uk)
“a rumbustious and highly enjoyable production, which has the audience chuckling, oohing, and literally gasping at the end, with the final clever twist of the knife ... David Gilbrook has the audience in the palm of his hand ... Mark Homer plays the many shady suspects with wit and mischief ... Jennifer Biddall plays a series of brassy street women with skill and humour ... The Rumpus Theatre production of The Ripper Files! is a darkly comic little masterpiece, which leaves you with a crooked smile on your face. Highly recommended” (Migrant Press)
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