Jill and Jack

The shocking truth behind a classic nursery rhyme.

NOTE: This is the stage version. Jill and Jack is also available as a radio play.
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Jill and Jack

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  • Michael C. O'Day:
    8 Mar. 2024
    There's a lot of pieces which offer the "true story" behind some nursery rhyme or other; what's remarkable, and delightful, about Probst's piece is the sheer amount of ground it covers, and the many variations she's able to achieve on the premise. Gender roles, fear of failure, personal destiny and hydrogeology - Probst addresses all of these as easily and gently as...well, as a nursery rhyme. Enjoy!
  • Christopher Plumridge:
    25 Sep. 2021
    Having written some alternative nursery rhymes I couldn't resist reading this one from Probst, what a great idea this is! The Writer allows Jill to turn this story on its head and along the way we discover their true friendship. Now it's left me wondering why Humpty Dumpty was even allowed to sit in the wall, was there no risk assessment done? Great!!
  • Philip Middleton Williams:
    7 Aug. 2021
    Nursery rhymes aren't supposed to make sense. Or are they? In this take on a classic, Jan Probst takes our centuries-old but never grown-up characters out for a reality check with mirthful and thought-provoking results. It makes you wonder what we've been teaching our kids all these years just so they can learn the lesson of how words rhyme. And not for nothing do we find out the awful truth.

Development History

  • Reading
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    Last Frontier Theatre Festival
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    2018
  • Reading
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    Wild Rose Moon
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    2018