There are many theories behind the identity of the notorious serial killer Jack The Ripper where many plausible suspects could have been the murderer although the true identity hasn’t been discovered and probably never will be.

The Ripper Files was first performed in Middlesbrough Theatre in September 2007. Due to the nature of the subject, it hasn’t become dated as many people have a fascinateion about this unsolved case.

Charles Lestrange (David Gilbrook) was a policeman who lived and worked in the White Chapel area at the time of the Ripper. As a newly qualified officer like other officers at the time he wanted to be the one to catch the Ripper.

Mark Pearce and Sarah Wynne Kordas play a wide range of cameo roles alongside their main role of Samuel Edwards and Elsie Fordham who are helping Estrange with his lecture explaining his theory of the Ripper’s true identity.

The evidence is presented clearly and with graphic descriptive information about how the Ripper mutilated the victims. Estrange also describes several murders that took place before the Ripper’s official first victim was declared and then several that took place after his final victim. Connecting the Ripper to these ladies although the methods used to kill them were not as brutal. The audience is left to decide for themselves if they are connected or not.

Prepare to be taken back to London’s White Chapel, in the 1880’s as director John Goodrum brings Jack the Ripper’s cruel and savage murders back under the spotlight as Rumpus Theatre presents another theory into who his true identity might have been. If you want to know who that was there’s only one way to find out and that’s by watching the performance.

For more information about The Ripper Files and future productions at the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke please visit the link below.

https://www.anvilarts.org.uk/visit-us/how-to-get-here/the-haymarket

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 grisly height.