Gail Louw Series of Plays

Mid-winter 1964, a phone rings at Johannesburg Railway Station. John Harris speaks quickly into the receiver: “This is the African Resistance Movement. We have planted a bomb, It is not our intention to harm anyone. Clear the Concourse.”

They don’t..

The bomb explodes, twenty-three are injured, one dies.

Does the end justify the means? Does one...

Herschel is a story of heroism amongst ordinary and extraordinary people, of impotence in the face of national and personal brutality, and of gestures, both meaningless and poignant which have resonated with historical developments. This is a play about a boy who responded to a situation of tragedy and horror for his family and his people by...

Shabat in Tzfat - a magical, beautiful time in an old, stunning part of Israel. Evening approaches and Bernice, a 30 something British woman arrives at the bus station. He is not there to meet her, but three other men are hanging about at the station, playing chess, drinking coffee, waiting. Who are these men and how will they affect Bernice,...

Karen is lonely. Her daughter has gone to university, her husband is an academic with far more to think about than Karen. But Karen has a great group of friends, who pop in for drinks and food and chat. They bicker and bring their own ideas of what Karen should do and what she shouldn't, and they tell stories of their own lives. Because they've...