Lorilei

Lorilei: A Meditation on Loss is a 2003 play by Tom Wright and Nicholas Harrington, based on a capital murder trial in Louisiana, United States.

[1] The play tells the true story of Lorilei Guillory, whose six-year-old son, Jeremy, was murdered in 1992 in Iowa, Louisiana, by a man with schizophrenia.

[2] During the second trial of the man convicted of the crime, Ricky Langley, Guillory testified for the defendant, stating her opinion that he was mentally ill at the time of the offence and should not be sentenced to die.

[8] The News International praised actor Nimra Bucha for her performance in English and described the story as deliberately slow-paced but "instantly gripping".

[5] Reviewing Sania Saeed's performance of the Urdu version, Dawn said she showed "the kind of emotional investment in the script which makes art reflect life".