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So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants? El
Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow
Village, and it's Kerry Jackson's pride and joy. Wearing her
working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry must navigate the
local characters in a bid to make the business a success, without
losing herself in the process. This biting comedy from April De
Angelis premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November
2022.
April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written
between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short
play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze! Jumpy 'The funniest new
play the West End has seen in ages. It's not only funny, it's
painfully acute; and its wit is of a piece with its insight.' -
Daily Telegraph The Village 'A great piece of storytelling . . .
flat-out wonderful.' - The Times A Laughing Matter 'De Angelis's
writing is even funnier than it is stimulating. . Comedy needn't be
soft and comforting. It can be mischievous and subversive. You see
the bind in which Garrick finds himself, trapped as he is by the
economic, social and moral pressures. It's a bind his descendants
know even today. I haven't seen it dramatised before with such
infectious brio.' - The Times Rune 'A gorgeous little nugget of a
show in which a bored teenager on a school trip to see the hoard at
the Potteries Museum suddenly discovers a power within her when she
gets to hold a piece of it.' - Guardian Extinct 'Builds its drama
with its own gripping truth ... Necessary and urgent.' - Guardian
Gin Craze! 'It's terrifically vivid and exciting. . A Brechtian
message delivered with the most glorious, full-throated ebullience:
an intoxicating show that leaves your head spinning, your spirit
soaring and a fire in your belly.' - The Times
The first collection of April De Angelis's plays selects work from
her plays Ironmistress, Hush, Playhouse Creatures and The Positive
Hour, and includes an introduction by the author. 'There is no
denying the sheer exuberance of De Angelis's writing.' Guardian
Winner of the Raymond Williams Award. Includes: Cohon Flambe by Eva
Lewin; Crux, by April De Angelis; Cut it Out by Jan Ruppe; Ithaca
by Nina Rapi; Forced Out by Jean Abbott; The Taking of Liberty by
Cheryl Robeson; and Fail/Safe by Ayshe Raif.
It's 1773 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The crowd is getting
restless. The leading man's unconscious but the show must go on.
This irreverent version of real-life events tells the story of
David Garrick, Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and a new play called
She Stoops to Conquer. Caught between financial pressures and
artistic ambition, Garrick must decide if he can risk staging a
play that could make or break his career. A Laughing Matter was
produced by Out of Joint and the National Theatre, London.
Following its premiere at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, in
October 2002, it transferred to the National in November and
returned in February 2003.
IIncludes: "Hound "by Maria Oshodi, "Soft Vengeance "by April de
Angelis, "Sympathy for the Devil "by Roy Winston, "Fittings: The
Last Freakshow "by Mike Kenny, "Into the Mystic "by Peter Wolf, and
"Peeling "by Katie O'Reilly. Introduced by Jenny Sealey, Artistic
Director of Graeae Theatre Company, the U.K.'s leading theatre
company working with disabled artists.
Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women
Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth
and richness of women's writing for the stage. Selected by Sue
Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a
wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for
schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. How to Not
Sink by Georgia Christou looks at duty, love and dependency across
three generations of women. In Wilderness by April De Angelis, a
patient and her psychiatrist head into the wilderness to find out
how sane any of us really are. In Chloe Todd Fordham's The
Nightclub, three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando
are caught up in a terrifying hate crime. Fucking Feminists by Rose
Lewenstein is a fiercely funny investigation of what feminism
means, and what it has become. Winsome Pinnock's Tituba is a
one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a
central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials. In The
Road to Huntsville by Stephanie Ridings, a writer researching women
who fall in love with men on death row finds herself crossing the
line. White Lead by Jessica Sian explores the expectations and
responsibilities of being an artist and a woman. In What is the
Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker, an English
schoolgirl whose brother has been killed on active duty in
Afghanistan is befriended online by an Afghan girl. Sphinx Theatre
has been at the vanguard of promoting, advocating and inspiring
women in the arts through productions, conferences and research for
more than forty years.
In April de Angelis's hilarious makeover of the bedside "classic"
prostitute Fanny sacks her (male) biographer and tells it like it
REALLY was - with the aid of two foul-mouthed, fellow sex workers,
a stuffed sock and a cello.
It's Virgie's eighty-fourth birthday and she is bucking convention.
But, always more committed as an artist than a mother, Virgie has
not reckoned on her family and friends' determination to thwart her
plans. This is a moving black comedy that reimagines the meaning of
family.
This is a brand new adaptation brings Emily Bronte's passionate and
spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge to life on stage.
Set on the wild, windswept Yorkshire moors, "Wuthering Heights" is
the tempestuous story of free-spirited Catherine and dark, brooding
Heathcliff. As children running wild and free on the moors, Cathy
and Heathcliff are inseparable. As they grow up, their affection
deepens into passionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her
heart as she chooses to marry wealthy Edgar Linton. Heathcliff
flees broken-hearted, only to return seeking terrible vengeance on
those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results.
Four superlative stage adaptations by contemporary playwrights,
giving bold new interpretations of classic novels
This volume, relaunching the Frontline Intelligence series,
contains stage adaptations by contemporary dramatists of
well-known, well-loved classics. Included are Jane Austen's "Emma"
by Michael Fry, John Cleland's "The Life and Times of Fanny Hill"
by April De Angelis, Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" by John
Clifford and George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" by Helen
Edmundson. The introduction by Michael Fry discusses the issue of
adapting classics in context.
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