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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  • 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.
  • John Busser:
    23 Jul. 2021
    Life is full of repetitious nonsensical actions that we grudgingly perform daily, because that's what's expected of us. Jan Probst takes this axiom to task and lets us see there is another way to do things. And she does it with one of the most familiar forms around, the nursery rhyme characters of Jack and Jill. Or in this case, letting her put her best foot forward, Jill and Jack. There is a nice bit about Jack's motivation which prevents him from being a one-dimensional character though and leaves both characters with their dignity intact.

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