Jack Sheppard: A Victorian Melodrama

Prelude – In the year of our Lord 1715 …

Song: Claude Duval

Jack’s master, the carpenter …

Song: The Carpenter’s Daughter

Come, come, be off Jack.

Song: The Jolly Nose

Bravo! Bravo! Beautiful!

At St Giles’s Round-house …

Nine years later, and since …

Song: Nix My Dolly

The dance is suddenly interrupted …

Wood the carpenter retired …

Song: Return, O My Love

Wood and Winny are astonished …

An hour later, a dishevelled Wild arrives …

Some days later, Jack is weeping …

Song: Farewell My Rory Tories

Slimkid comes running in.

The visitors leave and the cell door is locked …

Song: St Giles’s Bowl

Having freed himself, Jack takes the blanket …

Postlude