Music, Text & Direction
Conor Mitchell
Assistant Director
Jonathan Rainey Reid
Lighting Designer (Dublin/London)
Mary Tumelty
Sound Designer
Ian Vennard
Production Planning
Natalie Murphy
Orchestral Associate
Aoife Magee
Deputy Stage Manager
Cal McElwee
Executive Director
Andrew Hume
Based on the life of
Jack Saul
Consulting Choreographer
Michael McEvoy
Lighting Designer (Belfast)
Jonathan Daley
Sound Designer
Barry McCusker
Production Manager
Fergal Lonergan
Repetiteur
Fionnuala Ward
Creative Producer
Alice Malseed
Music, Text & Direction by Conor Mitchell
Assistant Direction by Jonathan Rainey Reid
In a scandalous new queer opera, Conor Mitchell & The Belfast Ensemble delve into the seedy underbelly of Victorian London…
Dublin Jack - Jack Saul - is one of Ireland’s most infamous erotic exports. He ran a roaring trade as a rent boy working in Victorian London - exploiting his sexual currency, and cashing in on aristocratic desire.
A self described ‘professional Mary Ann’, Jack’s commitment to his work and exuberant lack of discretion eventually led to his arrest.
His outrageous trial sparked a moral panic that swept across the British Empire - bringing about a new wave of homophobic attitudes and brutal anti-sodomy laws - still reverberating around the world today.
