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Bloody Jack
Bloody Jack
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Author: Tim Kelly Publisher: Dramatic Publishing (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 58 Pub. Date: 1981 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0886800129 ISBN-13: 9780886800123 Cast Size: 4 female, 4 male
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About
the Play:
Bloody Jack is a full-length drama by Tim
Kelly. A stage adaptation of the Jack the Ripper legend, Bloody
Jack focuses on a series of grisly murders that occurred in
London in the late 19th Century. The city is in a frenzy as police
work feverishly to find the culprit; everyone is a possible suspect.
Particularly suitable for high schools and play contests.
Bloody Jack is a thriller about the notorious Jack the
Ripper who terrorized London in the late 19th century. Who was Jack
the Ripper? The very name brings chills and eerie images of a shadowy
figure wielding a menacing blade. For three months in 1888, death
stalked the foggy, gas-lit streets of Whitechapel, in the East End of
London. Seven women were brutally murdered; the bodies were horribly
mutilated. The murderer was never caught or identified, and the play
offers theories as suspects visit the home of Dr. Thaddeus Sargeant.
Each person who comes to visit him could well be the notorious Bloody
Jack. "In traditional mysteries," Tim Kelly
said, "the audience is supposed to guess who. In Bloody Jack
to get the who, you have to establish the why."
Carefully constructing his plot, Tim Kelly throws suspicion on
each character, with the final revelation coming as a surprise.
Bloody Jack was originally performed (as The Whitechapel
Horror) in 1980 by the Colonial Players at the East Street
Theater in Annapolis, Maryland. It was performed (as The Ripper)
in 1981 at Northern Michigan University at Marquette, and presented
later that year as Bloody Jack at Wayne State University in
Detroit. The play has been performed in regional, high school,
college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 4 female, 4 male
What people say:
"A fine, literate thriller."
— Stage Review
"This show was very fun to
produce and students had a blast. Since it was just one set, we could
focus on character development and costumes. Lots of dialogue and not
as much action, but our audience loved guessing who the murderer was!
We got many compliments." — Jamie Scherer, Dayton
High School, Yerington, Nevada
About the Playwright:
Tim Kelly (1931-1998) is often regarded as the
most-published playwright in America, with over 300 titles to his
credit under both his real name and at least four pseudonyms (Vera
Morris, J. Moriarty, Robert Swift, Keith Jackson). Many of his plays,
like Les Miserables, M*A*S*H and The Uninvited,
are adaptations of novels, films. or television series, although he
also wrote a host of parodies a well as original scripts and musical
libretti. While his plays have been performed off-Broadway and by
such companies as the Royal Court Rep, the Manhattan Theatre Club
(MTC) and Seattle Rep, he is best known for writing for university,
community and school theatre.
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