Rumpus Theatre Company presents

The Ripper Files!

Inspector Lestrange is up to his neck in evidence ...

... but there’s one fact only the Ripper himself will know ...

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

Tour Schedule (more dates to follow)

2025	(click on venue for their website)
Sun 16 Feb	Rotherham Civic Theatre
Wed 19 & Thur 20 Feb	Swansea Grand Theatre
Thur 27 Feb - Sat 1 March	Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke
Tues 11 March	Quay Theatre Sudbury
Thur 20 - Sat 22 March	Theatre Royal Windsor
Tues 25 & Wed 26 March	Grove Theatre Dunstable
Fri 28 March	Middlesbrough Theatre
Tues 1 - Thur 3 April	Devonshire Park Theatre Eastbourne
Wed 23 April	Theatre Royal Wakefield
Thur 24 & Fri 25 April	New Theatre Royal Lincoln
Tues 9 - Thur 11 Sept	Gordon Craig Theatre Stevenage
Tues 16 Sept	Stafford Gatehouse Met Studio
Wed 17 Sept	Brindley Theatre Runcorn
Thur 18 Sept	Theatr Hafren
Sat 18 Oct	Sarah Thorne Theatre Broadstairs
Sun 19 Oct	Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells
Mon 20 - Wed 22 Oct	Theatre Royal Winchester
Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct	Old Town Hall Arts Hemel Hempstead
Mon 27 Oct	Civic Theatre Chelmsford
Wed 29 & Thur 30 Oct	Forum Theatre Billingham
Sat 1 Nov	Guildhall Arts Centre Grantham

 

 

“a rumbustious and highly enjoyable production, which has the audience chuckling, oohing, and literally gasping at the end, with the final clever twist of the knife ... a darkly comic little masterpiece ... highly recommended" (Migrant Press)

“An unexpectedly chilling climax finished off a fine piece of theatre” (TheLatest.co.uk)

 

Rumpus Theatre Company presents

The warm-hearted rom-com...

Sorry, I Love You..

by John Goodrum

Helen sits dejectedly on a pavement in Wimbledon having just broken up with her boyfriend Pete. The next two people she meets prove to be significant in her life in very different ways: one is a tramp, the other, Jools, a friend of Pete's. A romance develops between Helen and Jools and very soon Helen finds herself accompanying the separated father-of-two on a world-wide business tour. The ups and downs of their love affair are witnessed by a number of hotel receptionists, a café owner, a zoo-keeper and various others who all look – to Helen's increasing amazement – remarkably alike, all bearing the uncanniest resemblance to the tramp.

Whimsical, funny, charming and heady with romance, SORRY, I LOVE YOU … proves that relationships sometimes need a little help – and that that help can come from the least expected sources!

“highly recommended ... I laughed heartily throughout”  (indielondon.com)

“fast-paced … will appeal to the young-in-love and old softies alike” (D Times)

Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke - Thurs 6 - Sat 8 November 2025

Sorry, I Love You is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk