Having been amongst those fortunate blessed to get a ticket, expect a number of blogs throughout the next twelve months as more news comes out about casting, staging etc.
To say I am excited right now is an understatement.
Roll on August 2015 and Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet at the Barbican.
This is going to be the most quickly passing twelve months on record. š
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“The Ripper and the Roylals” by Melvin Fairclough is a fascinating look at the crimes of Jack the Ripper, with ‘evidence’ supplied by Walter Sickert’s son, Joseph. If you have seen the movie “Murder by Decree” starring Christopher Plummer and James Mason, as well as the TV mini-series “Jack the Ripper” starring Michael Caine and […]
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I’ve just got back from another mind blowing trip to London. If you get to go, and have some interest in the subject, may I recommend to you the Jack the Ripper Museum at 12 Cable Street in London’s East End? Opened in 2015, the sometimes controversial museum looks at the Ripper killings, but with […]
Margaret Walsh is a writer of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Please check out her books on her MX Publishing Profile.
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