The Ripper's 5 at Bleecker Street Theatre

Catch Skint Productions presents The Ripper's 5, book by Karlton Parris, with music by Luisa Jay, at the Bleecker Street Theatre from 14 - 17 Aug 2007 as part of FringeNYC.

It's now some five years since Mary Kelly (Jack the Ripper's 5th victim) was found decapitated at Millers Court. It has been Five years of dark nights and the darkest of unimaginable longings for Edgar.

Five young gentlemen of good breeding and privilege find themselves at the heart of the murder scenes at the Old Ten Bells hostelry. A place where all 5 women drank their last luke warm gin before they met their gruesome end at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Having paid the landlord a handsome fee for his conspicuous absence, Edgar and his friends conduct a s�ance as they try to make contact with the dead five East End prostitutes, forever immortalised upon the pages of a bloody history, The Ripper's 5.

Directed by Karlton Parris and choreographed by Wendy Laurence James, The Ripper's 5 features Ben Dalton (Edgar), Wendy Laurence James (Lizzie Stride), Langley Brandon (Mary Kelly), Ciara McAuliffe (Catherine Eddowes), Sarah Dorsett (Annie Chapman), Lisa Ademiec (Polly Nichols), Luke Gessner (Apprentice), Matt Downton (Pursist), Simon Elwell (Malachi) and Chris Love (Merlin).

Lighting and sound by Simond Dalton.