OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Gavin Kostick 

• Setting

  The play is set mainly on the night of 19th July, 1780 in a condemned cell, Newgate Prison, London.

• Synopsis

  Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig is set in Newgate Prison during the Gordon Riots of 1780. Two men and one woman have one night left before they are hanged. The condemned spend a wild night trying to come to terms with their imminent destruction and salvage some sort of immortality in the little time they have left.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 November 1994

• Producer

  Produced by Pigsback Theatre Company

• Original Venue

  Project Arts Centre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme. Additional information was supplied by a member of Fishamble Theatre Company.