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Gillian Slovo

GILLIAN SLOVO

  
Nationality:    South African
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Literary Agent:    Aitken Alexander Associates  [may be United Agents}

Gillian Slovo is an author, journalist, playwright and the President of English Pen. Gillian has written 12 novels including Black Orchids and Red Dust, which won the RFI Temoin du Monde prize in France and was made into a film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her novel Ice Road was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction and her family memoir, Every Secret Thing, was an international bestseller. Her play Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom , co-written for the Tricycle Theatre, has played in Theatres around the world including New York and Washington DC. Her edited interviews with women politicians was put on as part of the Tricycle's 2010 Women Power and Politics Season. In 2009 she won an amnesty media award for her article on children in detention. She is a reviewer, opinion writer and in 2008 wrote a column for the South African newspaper, the Star.

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         Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State         Guantanamo         Riots, The         Verbatim Accounts

Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State

Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State
Over the last twelve months' headlines have been dominated by the growth of Islamic State, and terror attacks claimed by IS have spread across the world. What is the entity that calls itself Islamic State? Why are some young Muslim men and women from across Western Europe leaving their homes to answer the call of Jihad? And what should we do about it? This piece of verbatim documentary theatre, written by novelist Gillian Slovo using material from the interviews she conducted and directed by Nicolas Kent, is the result of many months researching Islamic State, meeting people affected by the organisation and involved in the fight against it.

Notes:
Written by Gillian Slovo developed with Nicolas Kent from his original idea

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Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783197552

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Guantanamo

Guantanamo
I don't know what crime I am supposed to have committed for which not only I but my wife and children should continually suffer.' British detainee Moazzam Begg. Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, 'Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' looks at the questions surrounding the detentions in Guantanamo Bay, and asks how much damage is being done to Western democratic values during the 'war of terror'.

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written by Victoria Brittain And Gillian Slovo

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Tricycle Theatre, London >>>     20 May 2004

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Documentary Drama Documentary

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Riots, The

Riots, The
the Riots, from spoken evidence, continues the Tricycle's record of addressing current issues, in this case with a Dramatic account of the recent riots, brought to the stage more than three months before the Deputy Prime Minister's Committee on Riots is due to report. From tweets by taxi drivers, to moment-by-moment accounts by riot police, it will build a real-time picture of the riots as they unfolded. And then, from interviews with politicians, police, teachers, lawyers, community leaders, as well as victims and on-lookers, it will analyse what happened, why it happened, and what we should do towards making a better future for ourselves and our city.

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849431996

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Verbatim Accounts

Synopsis:
From leading politicians, edited from interviews she has recently conducted.

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part of Women, Power & Politics: then

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