GUT GIRLS BY SARAH DANIELS

Sarah Daniels:

Born in 1957, Sarah Daniels is a British Dramatist and a popular and acclaimed writer. Her first ever performed play was given a production at the Royal Court in 1981-

Her plays have been performed in places such as the National Theatre and Battersea Arts Center.

Her plays include:

• Masterpieces (1983)
• The Devil's Gateway (1983)
• Neaptide (1984)
• Byrthrite (1986)
• The Gut Girls (1988)
• Beside Herself (1990)
• Head Rot Holiday (1991)
• The Madness of Esme and Shaz (1994)
• Dust (2003)
• Flying Under Bridges (2005)

• God Blind Me (radio play 2007)
• But If You Try Sometimes (radio play 2011)

Her play writing career took off after she spent a year as the writer-in-residence of Sheffield's University English Department. 

She also has written episodes of Soap Operas such as Eastenders and Holby City.

Blackheath:

An area in the South East of London. An urban myth states that Blackheath was assossiated with the Plague in the mid 14th Century. Built over in the 18th and 19th Century, it contains many fine Victorian and Georgian houses. The biggest change to Blackheath was in the mid 18th-19th century when there was extensive mineral extraction.

Deptford:

'Gut Girls' was set in Deptford, an area along the South Bank of the River Thames in the South East of London. From the mid 16th Century to the late 19th, it was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Dockyards. Deptford began as two communities- one at the ford and the other the fishing village on the Thames, the 2 communities then grew together, flourished and became the main administrative centre of the Royal Navy.

Gut Girls:

Set in the slaughter houses in Deptford in 1912, Gut Girls follows Annie, a young girl with a troubled past. In this monologue- Act 1, Scene 5, she is confiding in a new friend she had made in the slaughterhouse, Emma.