ABSTRACT
Pam Gems was born in 1925 and spent her early life in a small village in the New Forest. After the Second World War she went to Manchester University to study psychology, and married in 1949. Between 1952 and 1965 she had four children, and during the 1950s and 1960s she wrote plays for radio and television, some of which were produced. In 1970 she moved to London with her family and began writing for fringe theatre. An autobiographical entertainment called Betty’s Wonderful Christmas was produced at the Cockpit Theatre in the winter of 1972-3. She was then invited to write some ‘sexy pieces’ for the Almost Free Theatre, and responded with two monologues-My Warren, about a woman living alone in a bed-sitter, and After Birthday about a working-glass girl who has just aborted-which were put on in the spring of 1973 preceding the Women’s Theatre Season, for which she wrote Miz Venus…. She also worked on both the productions done by the Women’s Company-writing Go West, Young Woman in 1974 and translating Marianne Auricoste’s My Name is Rosa Luxemburg in 1976.
