Jack The Ripper: Pocket Sandwich Theatre

Jack the Ripper: the Monster of White Chapel, by playwright Joe Dickinson. This play was honestly like nothing I’ve ever seen before. There were so many great elements to the show, the humor, audience interaction, props and just full of character to name a few. I had the pleasure of viewing this piece with several apparent regulars to the Pocket Sandwich Theatre off of East Mockingbird, Dallas Tx, on 10/15/15. Overall, this show was fantastic. It had the element of audience interaction that not many plays really have and if they do, no theatre has it down like Pocket Sandwich. Before the show they have someone that greets you with a medium sized boat of popcorn that any newcomer would think to eat. They have more intentions for the popcorn than you’d generally expect, they actually want you to save it all and throw it at the cast members! Before the play began there was an actress that announced how we should properly throw popcorn at the cast members and what the general rules of thumb were for certain situations. For instance, a loud “BOO, HISS” for acts of evil and so on. It was amazing how …show more content…
There was even a point in the play where Sir Charles Warren was drinking what was supposed whiskey. The glass had a caramel brown liquid in it, I don’t know if it was actually whiskey but it definitely begged the question which is about as real as a prop gets. I’d say the fact Sir Charles is seen drinking several times during the play that he is either very stressed or very selfish. On the other hand, only Jack the Ripper used a knife and only he or she, handled it. It was used of course, in the murders of his victims and sacrifice. Revealing the aforementioned fact that he is out for blood and since he also uses the knife for sacrifice, he’s relatively selfish as well. Props were used realistically and in no way metaphorically. I believe that was another huge