About the Play​

Mary Jane Kelly has a problem. She’s a pound forty behind in her rent, her window is broken, she has lost her key, her boyfriend just moved out AND it’s 1888—not a good time to be poor and “unfortunate” on the streets of London. 

Mary only has two ways to secure her own front door. One of them is prostitution. The other is selling something she shouldn’t have in the first place, something she’ll have to betray her murdered best friend and herself to give up. And somewhere out there in the foggy shadows, one of the world’s most notorious criminals is at work. 

The Unfortunates is a dark and intimate ghost story that deals with the stark and often uncomfortable reality of the lives of women in Victorian era London, England. Please be warned that there is coarse language, references to sex work, murder, violence, adult themes, alcoholism, themes of systemic exploitation and misogyny.