Dear Boss
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2006
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897289068
- Publish Date
- Dec 2006
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Dear Boss: A Fortean Investigation of Jack the Ripper explores the culture of madness and paranoia that seized Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888. It is a murder mystery and a romantic horror story for three actors and thirty puppets, which tells of an imagined investigation of the Ripper Murders by the American chronicler of the Unexplained, Charles Forta famous researcher of such phenomena as spontaneous combustion, raining fish and frogs, ghosts and flying saucersand his assistant, The Elephant Man.
About the author
Eric Woolfe is an actor and director. His latest play, Dear Boss is about Jack the Ripper and opens in Toronto this season. He began his career as an actor, and, as a result of frequent unemployment, branched out into puppeteering and playwriting in 1998. He is also furiously at work on Madhouse Variations, a trilogy of short horror plays adapted from writers who are smarter than he is.