APRIL DE ANGELIS (1960 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by April de Angelis
Breathless |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| 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. | ||||
Catch |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
Crux |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The suppression of a medieval women's community's attempts to explore issues of power and desire. | ||||
Flight and Pig |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: librettist - April de Angelis, music by Jonathan Dove | ||||
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Frankenstein |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Headstrong |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Shell Connections | |||
| 1st Published: | Shell Connections, Faber and Faber | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hush |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen (Royal Court Playscript), London | 1992 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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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 | ||||
Iron Mistress |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.8" Methuen, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historical play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: concerned with the implications of a woman having power in a "man's world" | ||||
Laughing Matter, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. . . | ||||
Life And Times Of Fanny Hill, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Frontline Drama 4: Adapting Classics" Methuen, london | 1996 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historical play | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From Cleland | ||||
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Playhouse Creatures |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1994 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Period 1669 theatres have just reopened, focuses on the precarious lives of five famous restoration actresses | ||||
Positive Hour, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Modern Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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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. | ||||
Silent Twins |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| 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. - Theatre List | ||||
Soft Vengeance |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Sealey, Jenny, Graeae Plays 1: New Plays Redefining Disability, Aurora Metro | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From The Book By Albie Sachs | ||||
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Wanderlust |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1988 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | 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 & Faber, London | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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? | ||||
Wild East |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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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. | ||||
Women In Law |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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