An evening with a playwright #citydailyphoto

 

An evening with a playwright. I met up with Gail Louw and over dinner in Chinatown we covered many topics, including her award-winning plays. Gail was in Manchester for a week to research a possible film script she is toying with (but which is rather hush-hush at the moment...). 

After a career in academia Gail is now a full time playwright, with past productions titled Killing Faith, Two Sisters and Joe ho ho.

The second photo above features Gail (front row, black coat) in the 1970s with fellow students of the South African University of the Witwatersrand protesting against apartheid in the education system.

Gail's latest play Blonde Poison is being performed at the St James Theatre in Victoria, London on 22 February. It's also just been published by Oberon books. Based on the true story of a Jewish woman during World War ll who betrayed up to 3,000 fellow Jews, Gail’s powerful play examines the motivation of evil.

Virginia McKenna wrote a glowing review and What's On Stage said "Gail Louw has written, without doubt, one of the finest pieces of solo theatre ever to have been performed with her latest play, Blonde Poison."