The Ripper Files by John Goodrum

18th October 2025

Sarah Thorne Theatre

Rumpus Theatre Company presents a spine-tingling whodunnit at the Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs

Starts at 7.30pm

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

JACK'S BACK...
...AND HE JUST CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY!

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