LAFPI

 Ophelia’s Jump Presents The World Premiere of 

Second Death of a Mad Wife by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos, 

Directed by Beatrice Casagrán

October 12 through November 3, 2024

Ophelia’s Jump Productions (OJP) will present the world premiere of Second Death of a Mad Wife by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos and directed by Beatrice Casagrán. The production will be performed at Ophelia’s Jump, located at 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I, in Upland, from October 12 through November 3, 2024.

This “wonderfully creepy and surreal ‘Northeastern Southern Gothic Noir” story brings another production to the OJP stage by this talented storyteller. Previous productions by McBurnett-Andronicos presented at Ophelia’s Jump include A Poison Squad of Whispering Women (2020) and The Hall of Final Ruin (2022). Producing Artistic Director Beatrice Casagrán explains the selection of Second Death for the OJP’s 2024 Season, “Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos is one of my favorite playwrights and people. She creates fantastical stories from historical nuggets. Her plays are populated by delightfully flawed, funny, weird characters with compelling and often dark motivations. Her talent in building darkly funny worlds rings all my bells!”

THE STORY: Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper’s wife? Bunny Maybrick began life in an opulent Alabama mansion and is ending it in a squalid shack full of cats in rural

Connecticut. She’s already given away most of her meager belongings, but the heavy contents of her soul are harder to leave behind. That is, until a local prep school boy, Theo Voss, becomes an accomplice in Bunny’s meandering, mad, death-bed confession that includes adultery, arsenic addiction, and murder.

Kelly McBurnett-Andronicos is a self-described “small town, American playwright raised in Alabama, New Mexico and West Texas. My aesthetic view is a fusion of Southern Appalachian and Southwest U.S. culture and heavily influenced by the literary genres of Magical Realism, Romanticism and Gothicism.” Her full-length plays include the Southern Gothic crime noir, To Tread Among Serpents (Off-Off Broadway production, Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition, O’Neill Semi-finalist) and the dark comedy western, The Hall of Final Ruin (Stage Raw Los Angeles Playwriting Award, Renaissance Theaterworks Brink! Award, Great Plains Theatre Conference Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Finalist, Two-time Princess Grace Semi-finalist, BAPF Semi-finalist).

Other plays include A Poison Squad of Whispering Women (BAPF Finalist), Second Death of a Mad Wife, and Maria Rasputin in Spangleland as well as many 10-minute plays. Her short play, El Loro, El Gato Y El Espíritu Santo (or The Parrot, the Cat and the Holy Ghost) is published by YouthPLAYS.

SECOND DEATH OF A MAD WIFE

Written by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

Directed by Beatrice Casagrán

Featuring: Billie Bryant, Jenny Buchanan, Preston Grant, Graham Kurtz, Jeff Sable, Robert Solomon and Hannah Whiteoak

Location: 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I, Upland, CA 91786

Preview: March 7, 2024

Regular Run: October 12 through November 3, 2024

Curtain Times:

Saturday, October 12 8:00pm (Opening Night)

Sunday, October 13  4:00pm

Thursday, October 17 7:30pm “Pay What You Can/Pay It Forward

Friday, October 18 8:00pm

Saturday, October 19 3:30pm

Saturday, October 19 8:00pm

Sunday, October 20 4:00pm

Thursday, October 24 7:30pm “Pay What You Can/Pay It Forward”

Friday, October 25 8:00pm

Saturday, October 26 8:00pm

Sunday, October 27 4:00pm

Wednesday, October 307:00pm

Thursday, October 31 8:00pm “Pay What You Can/Pay It Forward”

Friday, November 1 8:00pm

Saturday, November 2 8:00pm

Sunday, November 3 4:00pm

Ticket Information

All seats $35, $25 for college students with ID and children under 10. Thursdays are “Pay What You Can/Pay It Forward” with a $20 minimum. Online ticketing available at opheliasjump.org. Please call 909-734-6565 for tickets and information on group discounts.

About Ophelia’s Jump

Ophelia’s Jump is an award-winning, non-profit regional theatre company based in Claremont and performing in Claremont and Upland. Ophelia’s Jump Productions was founded in 2013 by women and queer artists and educators who believe that the purpose of theatre is to create unending conversations, spark imagination, incite conscience, and elicit a visceral response. OJP aims to invigorate the creativity and intellect of our community by working with local and regional artists to tell compelling stories and educate new generations of theatre lovers.

Ophelia’s Jump is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

Additional information available at opheliasjump.org or info@opheliasjump.org

Location: 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I, Upland CA, 91786