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Gillian Slovo

April 2024

  • Gillian Slovo.

    ‘I was brought up among giants’: Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder

    As she takes the words of Grenfell Tower fire survivors to the New York stage, the playwright talks about being drawn to painful subjects, and the disaster’s worldwide relevance

July 2023

  • Robert Booth

    Trust the theatre: it has shown us the true outrage of Grenfell in a way the inquiry can’t

    Robert Booth
  • five people, four kneeling, one standing, around a small pile of packing crates, on a bare stage

    The week in theatre: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors; Cuckoo; The Sound of Music – review

  • Sarah Slimani in Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors at Dorfman theatre, London.

    Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors review – a masterpiece of forensic fury

  • Gillian Slovo

    Writer of Grenfell play says people must be jailed for what happened

April 2023

  • Doves being released in north Kensington to commemorate the first anniversary of the fire in 2018

    ‘Our identity is being stolen’: survivors plead for halt to dramas about Grenfell

  • People next to a Grenfell tower fire memorial wall, with the tower's tarpaulin-wrapped ruins visible in the background

    Grenfell fire: National Theatre play to tell survivors’ stories

July 2021

  • Refugees who have arrived in the UK since 1951 celebrate the signing of the UN refugee convention

    Refugees recreate historic picture to celebrate 70 years of protection

    People granted sanctuary in UK since 1951 gather to celebrate anniversary of UN refugee convention

April 2016

  • Gunnar Cauthery (Charlie Winter), Ronak Patani and Farshid Rokey in Another World by Gillian Slovo developed with Nicolas Kent from his original idea @ Temporary Space, National Theatre. (Opening 15-04-16) ©Tristram Kenton 04/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Another World review – compelling insights into Islamic State

  • Gillian Slovo and Nicolas Kent writer and director

    What is the appeal of Islamic State to young people?

March 2016

  • A fire is seen during civil disturbances in Salford near Manchester, England, Tuesday, Aug. 9 2011. Police in the city of Manchester, in northwestern England, said seven people had been arrested so far, as youths rampaged through the city center, which had not previously been touched by the violence, arson and looting that has swept through London and other major cities since Saturday night. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Manchester riots rioting

    Ten Days by Gillian Slovo review – a powerful response to the English riots

    Slovo’s experience of theatre brilliantly informs this timely thriller about devious politicians, tensions in the Met and anger on the streets

February 2016

  • Gillian Slovo at her home in north London.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Gillian Slovo: ‘I think the 2011 riots sparked something in me’

    The author and playwright on the 2011 riots, the lure of Isis and finally adjusting to her home in England

July 2014

  • 23 October 1961 South African writer novelist and political activist Nadine Gordimer

    My hero
    My hero: Nadine Gordimer by Gillian Slovo

    Whether recalling collecting her pulitzer prize or a conversation she had heard with Nelson Mandela, she could have me in stitches, writes Gillian Slovo

December 2013

  • Gillian Slovo on Neslon Mandela: '

    People and power
    Gillian Slovo on Nelson Mandela: 'He had enormous personal dignity' – video

  • Gillian Slovo

    Gillian Slovo wins Golden PEN award

August 2012

  • Thomas Cromwell

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: historical fiction with Hilary Mantel and Gillian Slovo

    Should historical fiction be romantic, or politically accurate? Gillian Slovo and Hilary Mantel discuss their latest books, on Thomas Cromwell and Gordon of Khartoum. Elsewhere, Richard Holloway considers the problem of certainty in religion

January 2012

  • Illustration of Geneneral Gordon depicting his death in Khartoum

    An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo – review

    Gillian Slovo's historical novel explores the nature of goodness. By Clare Clark

November 2011

March 2011

  • People and power
    Gillian Slovo: 'Living in a democracy can mean you hear all kinds of things that offend you' - video

    Comment is free interviews: Gillian Slovo, president of English PEN, on freedom of expression, religious sensitivities and growing up under an authoritarian regime

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