'JACK the Ripper' will be performed at Tavistock College by a cast of 25 senior school students next month.
Experience the bawdy Victorian music hall, smell the mean streets of Whitechapel, tremble at the terror stalking the alleys — this cult musical creates a world where nothing is quite what it seems.
The play is a musical reconstruction of incidents relating to the East End murders which took place between Friday, August 31 and Friday, November 9, 1888.
A solution of Jack the Ripper's identity is hinted at, but the play is an atmospheric commentary rather than an historical re-enactment, shifting between reality and artificiality, with characters representing 'real' people as well as members of the music hall audience and players.
Some characters are called upon to play more than one role, they thus have a life within the music hall and also in reality. The chairman also plays the authoritative roles of Sir Charles Warren, the Magistrate, and the Dock's Foreman, while Montague Druitt is also known as Toynbee and plays the villain in the melodrama and the magician.
Performances will be from December 2 to 5 at 7.30pm.
Tickets are available from college reception priced at £5 for adults or £3 for concessions.
This production is in association with Morwellham Quay who have supplied period costumes and set dressings.
This production is not suitable for young children.