In this collection, April De Angelis has created four plays that are sometimes wrenching, occasionally scathing, often hilarious, and frequently political without being polemical. Focusing most often on women, the plays have disparate settings: an ironworks in the mid-nineteenth century, a beach house haunted by a suicide in the family, backstage in a Shakespearean theater where actresses are preparing to perform some of the first stage roles for women, and the office of a social worker who provides group therapy to three women, each struggling in her own way with her life.

April de Angelis Plays 1

Literature & Fiction

De Angelis, April

Dramas & Plays

April de Angelis

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?\nEl Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's Kerry Jackson's pride and joy.\nWearing 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.\nThis biting comedy from April De Angelis premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2022.

Kerry Jackson

Faber&Faber

I want you to imagine me in a crowd of people. It's 2030 and the mean temperature this summer has been 40 degrees celsius. It's midday. The sun is nuclear hot. There have been spontaneous outbreaks of fires round the country the closest to us in Epping forest, a monster conflagration which raged for 3 weeks.\nA woman stands alone on stage. She has one hour to change our future. One hour to avert catastrophe. She'll give everything she has.\nAddressing the climate emergency head on, Extinct includes testimony from environmental activists. Extinct opened at Stratford East in June 2021.

Extinct

The Divine Mrs S

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Playhouse Creatures

Samuel French Ltd.

An anthology of plays by new women writers in the theatre.

Seven Plays by Women

Rapi, Nina

Lewin, Eva

Ruppe, Jan

Aurora Metro Books

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