The Other Jack

Full-length comedy-drama / 1f, 1m

A play about books, mostly . . . and bonfires, clichés, dystopias, failure, happiness, jokes, justice, privilege, publishing, rejection, self-loathing, shoplifting, and umbrellas. An old, established, male English writer and a young, aspiring, female American writer meet in London cafés to talk about books—that’s the plot. There are flirtations, arguments, spilt coffee, deaths both in life and in fiction, generational and gender and cultural conflict, rain and laughter. Adapted from celebrated author Charles Boyle’s The Other Jack and 99 Interruptions.

Developed by The Alcove at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by James Dacre. Performed by Jasmine Blackborrow and Nathaniel Parker, and produced by Caridad Svich.

Praise for the novel by Charles Boyle

“This is the business. From the start, you realise that you are in the presence of a sharp, subversive and observant intelligence, a writer with an ear for a story and the easy narrative manner of someone who—it comes as an instant relief to notice this—isn't going to bore you once.”

—Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian