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APRIL DE ANGELIS (1960 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
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Plays by April De Angelis |
2006 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Jan 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109993 | |||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of "Decade" by Amy Rosenthal, Beth Steel, Nimer Rashed, David Eldridge, Lou Ramsden, Fraser Grace, April de Angelis, Richard Marsh, Phil Porter and Rex Obano. Much has changed in the world since our current millennium dawned in 2000. Theatre503 presents ten short plays by ten different playwrights, each encompassing a year of the so-called noughties and encourages the audience to reflect over the past decade whilst taking in a great evening of theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | the escape of the Austrian girl, Natascha Kampuschfrom her kidnapper, Wolfgang Priklopit, after eight years of captivity | |||||
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Amongst Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95693 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Amongst Friends is a darkly comic social satire, poking fun at modern day fears and double standards | |||||
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Breathless | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9084 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Women and science portrayed through a Frankenstein theme showing frustration at not being taken seriously as scientists because of sex. | |||||
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Calais | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Sep 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119208 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of a Play, a Pie and a Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | In years to come we'll look back and it'll be like it happened to someone else. . . someone we didn't even know and it'll be hard to feel sorry for. . .Horatio Nelson is dead but the women in his life live on. April De Angelis' play explores the way in which Britain constructs an idea of itself through a war hero but questions how society really treats those involved in war? | |||||
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Catch | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58789 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | written by April De Angelis, Stella Feehily, Tanika Gupta, Chloe Moss and Laura Wade | |||||
Synopsis: | It's like they want to tap into your soul - watch your every move, monitor who you are, file a report on you and sell you off.' There is a company that knows who you are. They trace every detail of your lifestyle, habits and spending. They know your darkest fears and secret hopes. They can change you. Claire has created a new identity for herself and promises to do the same for others in crisis. She alone has unrestricted access to the company records. Catch is a new collaborative play by five leading writers, which asks timely questions about who we want to become - and at what cost. | |||||
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Country | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 12 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Sticking Place and Seabright Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119309 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Terror 2010: Death and Resurrection by April DeAngelis, William Ewart, Neil LaBute, Mark Ravenhill | |||||
Synopsis: | Elaine's husband has died. But does he not live on in the memory? In the things he did? And in the things he is yet to do? In the peaceful seclusion of the country, something is stirring. . . | |||||
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Crux | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9085 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The suppression of a medieval women's community's attempts to explore issues of power and desire. | |||||
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Flight and Pig | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66949 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | librettist - April de Angelis, music by Jonathan Dove | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Frankenstein | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9086 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Headstrong | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Shell Connections | |||||
| 1st Published: | Shell Connections, Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41568 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Hush | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen (Royal Court Playscript), London, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9087 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | answers the question 'what are the ideological alternatives available to us after a decade of radical free market Toryism and the seeming demise of Socialism | |||||
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Iron Mistress | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.8" Methuen, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9088 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | concerned with the implications of a woman having power in a "man's world" | |||||
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Jumpy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 13 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571283460 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129036 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
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| A mother, a wife, and fifty, Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to focus on persuading her teenage daughter to go out fully clothed. A frank and funny family drama questioning parental anxieties and life after fifty. | |||||
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Laughing Matter, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9089 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | produced with She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. Do you give them what they want? Or what they need? This irreverent version of real life events tells the story of David Garrick, Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and a risky new play called She Stoops to Conquer. . . | |||||
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Life And Times Of Fanny Hill, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Frontline Drama 4: Adapting Classics" Methuen, london, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9090 | |||
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Genre: | Historical play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | From Cleland | |||||
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Playhouse Creatures | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9091 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Period 1669 theatres have just reopened, focuses on the precarious lives of five famous restoration actresses | |||||
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Positive Hour, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9092 | |||
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Genre: | Modern Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Miranda is a social worker, with no shortage of problems herself. Her best friend, Emma, is a failed artist in the throes of a mid-life crisis; her lover, Roger, is a frustrated academic, desperately trying to finish his book on Hegel. Personal problems are exacerbated by work and especially, Miranda's relationship with Paula, an unemployed single mother from Lewisham, forced into prostitution to survive. Hilariously funny and quietly disturbing, The Positive Hour brings issues of gender and sexuality into a thoroughly new perspective. | |||||
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Rough Cuts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 22 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122435 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond to the 2010 Election | |||||
Synopsis: | Ten of Britain's leading playwrights respond to the 2010 General Election. Five nights of ten minute short plays at Theatre Local, Elephant and Castle. Tue 22 & Thu 24 June at 7pm featuring plays by April de Angelis, Tim Crouch, Michael Wynne, Dipo Agboluaje and Leo Butler. Wed 23 & Fri 25 June at 7pm featuring plays by Alia Bano, Michael Bhim, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Martin Crimp and Emma Crowe. Sat 26 June at 7pm featuring all plays by the ten writers. Hung Over takes place as part of Rough Cuts, the Royal Court's annual season of work-in-progress, experimental pieces, readings and shorts. Rough Cuts emerges from the year-round activities of the Studio, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to develop ideas collaboratively, experimentally and informally. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Silent Twins | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66948 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | text by April de Angelis; music by Errollyn Wallen | |||||
Synopsis: | Sunday Times journalist Marjorie Wallace met young arsonists June and Jennifer Gibbons in Broadmoor in the 1980s. She discovered twins who wouldn't talk to the world, but whose writings and literary imaginations were vivid, strange and articulate. Wallen and De Angelis' tragic-comic opera bring to brilliant life the twins' secret world of pulp fiction and killer dolls. | |||||
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Soft Vengeance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sealey, Jenny, Graeae Plays 1: New Plays Redefining Disability, Aurora Metro, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9093 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | From The Book By Albie Sachs | |||||
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Wanderlust | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9094 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Oval House Women's workshop | |||||
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Warwickshire Testimony, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9095 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | The past: the 'big house', the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation. Rural idyll or claustrophobic hellhole? Desperate to get away from her family and from a culture where everybody knows everything about everybody, Edie moves out but can she ever manage to move on? The present: big business and incomers, no shops and no locals, where nothing stays the same for five minutes and where the 'quaintness' of the cottages is all that's left of village life. For better or for worse? | |||||
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Wild East | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48358 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Frank's got the interview; it's his big break. He just has to convince two formidable women from the corporation and he'll have his chance to get back to Russia. But somehow, history is working against them all. | |||||
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Women In Law | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9096 | |||
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Wuthering Heights | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oct 2008 | |||||
Company: | The Touring Consortium, Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057311495-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91011 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | M8 F7, 1 boy, may be played by M6 F4 with doubling. Extras | |||||
Notes: | 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 a passionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her heart as she chooses to marry the wealthy Edgar Linton. Heathcliff flees broken-hearted only to return seeking terrible vengeance on those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results. | |||||
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