THE ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD - A PLAY OF JACK THE RIPPER 
 
Arcola Theatre
29th April - 24th May 2008

the girl who was going to die

 “This is a gorgeous production … insist[ing] upon the importance of remembering the real people who get lost when public horrors shatter hidden, private lives.” London Theatre Blog
 
“Maxwell’s script, his capturing of the colloquial language of his characters, and the actors’ delivery of it, is spot on … the staging is also excellent.”
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“Stylistically elegant … Jennifer Kidd [is] magnificently watchable” - Evening Standard
   


Directed by Alex Clifton (Pursued by a Bear, the forthcoming 'Our Country's Good' at the Watermill Theatre)
Designed by Paul Burgess
Lighting Design by Katharine Williams
Sound Design by Dominic Bilkey

Starring Jennifer Kidd (Globe, Cheek by Jowl), John Wark (RSC) and Andrew Mathys (Globe, Headlong)
 
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"Glyn Maxwell is the best dramatic poet now at work in English" - Daily Telegraph
 
“Glyn Maxwell is a superlative writer. (His) writing gleams with the wit of John Donne and is written in the rhythm of Shakespeare” ***** The Scotsman