This play aims to transport the senses into the 1950s, with Billie Holiday ringing out, the taste of whiskey and tobacco, and the temptation of passionate and sometimes dangerous love…..Set in 1950’s, The Thrill of Love dramatizes the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and takes a fresh look at the woman behind the headlines through the lens and narration of Inspector Gale. Plastered across the papers in 1955 as the ‘blond bombshell’ who killed her lover in cold blood on a London Street, firing more than 6 shots at point blank range.
But was there more to this ‘crime’? As Jack Gale (detective) would say; the truth, it’s rarely pure, never simple.
