James Jeffrey Paul

Miller's Court: a Play About Jack the Ripper and His Last Victim James Jeffrey Paul

Early on the morning of 9 November 1888, Jack the Ripper took his last victim, the young Irish prostitute Mary Kelly, back to her one-room hovel at No. 13 Miller's Court, in the East End of London. Two hours later, Mary lay dead and horribly butchered--the Ripper's last and most ghastly murder. What happened in those fateful two hours? What did Jack the Ripper and Mary Kelly say to each other? Did they, perhaps, reveal everything about themselves--their pasts, their characters, and the sad, twisted motivations that set them on their separate journeys to this tragic rendezvous? Compassionate yet unsparing, poignant yet terrifying, this attempt to answer those questions is a tragedy in the oldest, purest sense of the word.