The Gut Girls. Research Starting Point

Taken from Drama Online-
http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/playwrights/sarah-daniels-iid-12347

The women of Deptford Foreign Cattle Market are up to their elbows in the guts of animals, working twelve or thirteen hours a day preparing meat for London's butcher shops. They are pilloried, and marginalised, even if they are well-paid.

One local well-to-do woman decides that the Christian thing to do would be to teach these women how to act like young ladies, train them up for a life as maid-servants. 'Improve' them. Of course, it doesn't work out that way: the women get laid off from their jobs and end up separated and even imprisoned via the wealthy houses of London society.

Gut Girls contrasts the bloody mess of independence and solidarity with the apparently pristine face of upper-class life. It was commissioned by and premiered at the Albany Empire theatre in Deptford, London, in 1988.

This gives me an overview of the play and start to understand more about the setting and history of the play. To further this i will now look at the setting from Depthford to Blackheath and look at the contrast between jobs. i will also need to research about the two different jobs that Annie does, working as a meat gutter and a maid servant, and also the home for friendless girls organisation.

i will need to do research into the author, Sarah Daniels, and look at why she wrote the play, and reviews of the play.