by Amanda Whittington

directed by Mark Scanlon

A hostess in the West End ‘gentlemen’s clubs’, Ruth Ellis works hard, plays hard and dreams of a movie-star life. Yet in 1955, the self-styled ‘blonde bombshell’ is convicted of murder after shooting her abusive lover and becomes the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain.

Through the eyes of film noir Detective Inspector Gale, Ruth’s crime is re-examined in the light of the society she lived in and the experiences that led to her shooting her lover. From the writer of Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under - both popular past SDS productions  - The Thrill of Love features a mostly female cast in portraying the world Ruth inhabits.