Jack The Ticket Ripper
A comic revenge tragedy. A ticket taker seeks revenge after being replaced by an optical scanner on his twenty-fifth anniversary on the job. Think a life in the theater is easy? Then you don’t know Jack!
‘John Morogiello successfully combines comedic violence with the daily going-ons of a theatre, and produces a hilariously entertaining story of an underappreciated ticket ripper. Quick and dirty, Jack, The Ticket Ripper produces laughs with ease, combining farcical elements of horror films and theatre management. Anyone who’s ever had psychotic thoughts during a shift at a less-than-glamorous job (come on now, that’s everybody), should exorcise his anger by seeing Jack, The Ticket Ripper.’ –DC Theatre Scene
Cast
JACK--Professional ticket taker, middle-aged JULIE--Volunteer usher, aspiring playwright, young HOUSE MANAGER--Wears rubber gloves, because he suffers from a dreadful genetic disorder that makes his skin fragile and susceptible to bleeding. PLAYWRIGHT--Male. Desperate, tortured, self-indulgent alcoholic ARTISTIC DIRECTOR--Gay male. Wears a silk scarf STAR--Female. Insanely thin, to the point of appearing brittle, always carries a coffee cup STAGE MANAGER--A bull of a woman. The headphones, always the headphones PATRON, BARTENDER, CLEANING WOMAN--all played by the same woman.
Authors
John Morogiello