GOLDSMITHS’ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
PLAYWRIGHT PHD NEW WRITING PROJECT

THE RUTH ELLIS SHOW

A new verse drama
by Christopher O’Shaughnessy
Directed by Jack Paterson
The George Wood Theatre (London UK)

About

“…acting, direction, lighting and sound could not really be bettered!”
John London, Professor of Theatre at Goldsmiths’ University of London 

The play traces the spiritual trajectory of Ruth Ellis as she remembers, mis-remembers, and re-engages with her life in the moments before she is due to be hanged for murder in Britain in 1955. A surrealist, impressionistic, imaginative, highly theatrical rendering of this fascinating story.