THE HARLOT'S CURSE

Softcover. Winner of the £15,000 Plays on Stage Award run by London Weekend Television (1988). 'This pageant of Victorian vice tells the story of Mary Kelly, Jack the Ripper's last victim, murdered in the East End of London just over a century ago. It is not a detective story; there is no attempt to trace the identity of the Ripper; the focus, rather, is on the social and sexual conditions from which he emanated, as surely as cholera from bad drains...nursery rhymes played during an orgy create for once a genuinely chilling effect.'(Review by 'The Times' critic). Loosely inserted is a two page, signed, autograph letter (dated August 30, 1994) from Rodney Archer, one of the authors,(who was living in Spitalfields at the time), discussing the play and venues where it had been performed. With 2 Illus. 59pp. trade size softcover. A fine copy of a very interesting and now extremely rare 'Ripper' item.