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This short video explains how I feel our treasure hunt journey is informed by classic material discovered.

We wanted to base our piece off fact, specifically the canonical five

We wanted to explore different ways to portray the facts in an interesting way

Desired to embed the severity of the murders

Wanted to keep the piece lighthearted

Present facts in a way that would engage with the audience

Wanted to make audience go away and think about Jack the Ripper and his murders

#facts

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt

Antonin Artaud

#theatricalexperience

Rehearsal process photos.

#rehearsal

when you get innovative visual theatre allied with classical storytelling, you get something that audiences respond to immediately

Kneehigh Theatre

Discover facts about Jack the Ripper, the infamous Victorian serial killer. Who were the victims, and who was the man behind these brutal crimes?

An interesting read.

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Creativity is like a cat – you can’t MAKE IT come to you. In order to catch it you sometimes have to walk away from it

Improbable Theatre

#creativity

Final Piece...

I think our final piece went well and as Artaud once said “There can be no spectacle without an element of cruelty as the basis of every show”. I find that we achieved this as our subject matter was cruel however, by presenting it in a creative and original way, we created an awe inspiring piece.

#jacktheripper artaud

Photos of our end piece that depict each of the different elements we wanted to include.

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theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence

Vsevolod Meyerhold

#theatre

A helpful task for us to utilise was to make a storyboard with the premise of our piece. For me, making a storyboard with a start, middle and end gave me a good idea of the direction of the piece and its transitions. This storyboard pictured did just that for me. It definitely helped us as a group, move forward and add movement, sound and lighting where appropriate.

#storyboard

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society

Augusto Boal

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Our groups ideas for props and costume.

#costume props

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature

A. A. Milne

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This is the full and official version of the documentary Unmasking Jack the Ripper, written by Richard Jones and produced by Richard and Mark Ubsdell. The do...

A documentary full of information on Jack the Ripper that was an interesting watch and certainly beneficial research to influence our devised piece.

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What’s Next?

In respects to devised storytelling, we had the task as a group to figure out exactly how we would tell the story of Jack the Ripper, in our own unique way. We had to insure we were being influenced by the classic source of the Whitechapel murders. This meant we had to find lots of different sources that unveiled new information we had not yet uncovered and see where we could incorporate that in some way to fit our piece.

We decided to focus our attention on the canonical five: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.

Our idea to tell the innocent women’s stories was to create a rap for each of them explaining their brutal murders and contrast this with news reporters also giving the audience the facts of how and where each body was found. We decided we should incorporate tableux’s into the performance when each news report was being read, however adapting them from the previous tableux’s we had created. In retrospect, I find this was a clear and effective method as we clearly portrayed the brutality of the women’s murders whilst giving facts from classical sources.

We had a nice balance of contrasting the serious nature by starting beats A Capella and going into the raps. I think the way we chose to devise our piece to tell the story of Jack the Ripper is certainly unique and a stand out way to present such information.

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Jack the Ripper’s Bedroom - Walter Sickert (1907)

A piece of artwork that heavily influenced our desire to create an enigma when it came to who the killer actually was.

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