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Rumpus Theatre Company presents

The Ripper Files!

 

The Ripper Files

 

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 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 titillation and delight the ghoulish events in Victorian Whitechapel which have been a source of universal fascination since the 1880’s ...

Tour Schedule (more dates to follow)

2025
(click on venue for their website)
Sun 16 Feb
Wed 19 & Thur 20 Feb
Thur 27 Feb - Sat 1 March
Tues 11 March
Thur 20 - Sat 22 March
Tues 25 & Wed 26 March
Fri 28 March
Tues 1 - Thur 3 April
Wed 23 April
Thur 24 & Fri 25 April


Tues 9 - Thur 11 Sept
Tues 16 Sept
Wed 17 Sept
Thur 18 Sept
Theatr Hafren
Sat 18 Oct
Sarah Thorne Theatre Broadstairs
Sun 19 Oct
Mon 20 - Wed 22 Oct
Theatre Royal Winchester
Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct
Mon 27 Oct
Civic Theatre Chelmsford
Wed 29 & Thur 30 Oct
Sat 1 Nov
Guildhall Arts Centre Grantham

 

 

“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 ... a darkly comic little masterpiece ... highly recommended" (Migrant Press)

“An unexpectedly chilling climax finished off a fine piece of theatre” (TheLatest.co.uk)

 

 

 

Rumpus Theatre Company presents

The devilishly funny farce

The Comedy of Terrors!

by John Goodrum

 

The Comedy of Terrors

 

When Jo Smith arrives for an audition with director Vyvian Jones, it turns out she’s
actually been invited to the theatre by Vyvian's twin brother Beverley, who wants
her to impersonate her own twin sister Fiona, to persuade Vyvian that Beverley
hasn’t had a fling with Fiona ... he has, but doesn't want Vyvian to tell his fiancee
Cheryl! And when the real Fiona turns up, not to mention Vyvian (a member of the
local Sons of Satan Association, who wants to use Jo for his first human sacrifice)
and Beverley and Vyvian’s identical triplet policeman brother, the stage is well and
truly set for a fast-moving madcap comedy of multiple mistaken identity.

 

Tour Schedule (more dates to follow)

2024
(click on venue for their website)
Fri 25 Oct
Quay Theatre Sudbury
Sat 26 Oct
Old Town Hall Arts Centre Hemel Hempstead
Sun 27 Oct
Wed 30 Oct
Thu 31 Oct
Sat 2 Nov
Beccles Town Hall
Thu 7 - Sat 9 Nov
Mon 11 Nov
Thu 14 Nov
2025
 
Sat 22 Feb
Thu 6 March
Mon 17 - Wed 19 March
Tues 29 April
Tues 20 May

 

 

“a farcical and hilarious couple of hours ... fabulous!” (Bracknell News)

“If you haven’t seen it, do. If you have, see it again; it’s just as funny and ingenious
the second time around. I was worn out with laughing by the end ...
written under the influence of happy juice!”
(Derbyshire Times)

 

 

 

Rumpus Theatre Company

in association with

The Sarah Thorne Theatre - Broadstairs

presents

the scintillating light comedy

ARMS AND THE MAN

(or The Chocolate Cream Soldier)


by George Bernard Shaw

 

Arms and the Man

 

Beautiful young Bulgarian Raina has heroic ideals, betrothed as she is to
Major Sergius Saranoff. Her fiancé is away, fighting alongside her father,
Major Petkoff, in the war against Serbia ... but when escaping Serbian Captain
Bluntschli climbs into her bedroom through the balcony window, she finds
herself hiding him behind the curtains in spite of herself. Does he have
ammunition in his pockets? No … he has chocolate creams, like any other
jobbing soldier. And when she catches Sergius flirting with her maid Louka,
Raina finds her grand notions of love and war slipping away from her, as true
love and honesty take their place.

 

 

Tour Schedule (more dates to follow)

2024
(click on venue for their website)
Sat 5 & Sun 6 Oct
Tues 8 Oct
Thu 10 - Sat 12 Oct
Wed 16 & Thu 17 Oct
Fri 18 Oct
Tues 12 & Wed 13 Nov

 

 

“The seven-strong cast tell the story eloquently and consummately,
and impressively bounce off one another”
(British Theatre Guide)

"slick, upbeat … full of humour" (British Theatre Guide on The 39 Steps)

“never takes itself too seriously ... you can almost smell the faded decadence"
(Eastbourne Herald on SHERLOCK HOLMES - The Scandal Of The Scarlet Woman)

"all the hallmarks of a classic" (The Reviews Hub on Raffles)

 

A real audience-pleaser, ARMS AND THE MAN
is a sparkling comedy that has more than a little to say
about the state of the world today!

 

This production is dedicated to the memory of Michael Friend, leading Bernard Shaw producer and enthusiast.

 

 

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