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British dramatist
April De Angelis (born April 1960) is an English dramatist
[1] of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of
Sussex University
[2] who trained at
East 15 Acting School .
De Angelis began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the
Monstrous Regiment theatre company.
In 1987, her play Breathless was a prize winner at the 1987 Second Wave Young Women's Writing Festival.
Her plays often feature historical figures.
Playhouse Creatures and A Laughing Matter are set in the London theatrical milieu of the 17th and 18th centuries respectively. Wanderlust examines Victorian colonialism and Ironmistress is a verse play exploring Lady
Charlotte Guest 's factory ownership.
As a librettist, De Angelis contributed to the opera The Silent Twins (2007), composed by
Errollyn Wallen , which is based on the case of
June and Jennifer Gibbons .
[3]
De Angelis tends to write to commission and several of her plays have been produced by
Max Stafford-Clark 's
Out of Joint theatre company .
Plays
Breathless (1987)
Women in Law (1988)
Wanderlust (1988,
Oval House Theatre Women's Workshop)
Visitants (1988)
Ironmistress (1989,
Young Vic Theatre )
Crux (1989,
Paines Plough )
Frankenstein (1989)
The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (1991,
Red Shift Theatre Company )
Hush (1992,
Royal Court Theatre )
Greed (1993)
Soft Vengeance (1993)
[a]
Playhouse Creatures (Haymarket Theatre, 1993)
The Positive Hour (1997,
Out of Joint theatre company /
Hampstead Theatre )
A Warwickshire Testimony (1999,
Royal Shakespeare Company )
A Laughing Matter (2002,
Out of Joint theatre company )
Headstrong (2004,
Royal National Theatre Shell Connections)
Wild East (2005,
Royal Court Theatre )
Catch
[b] (2007,
Royal Court Theatre )
Wuthering Heights (2008)
[c]
Jumpy (2011)
After Electra (2015)
My Brilliant Friend (2017)
[d]
The Village (2018,
Theatre Royal Stratford East )
[e]
Wilderness (2019)
Kerry Jackson (2020)
Infamous (2023)
The Divine Mrs S. (2024)
Libretti
Pig
Flight
Silent Twins (2007)
Notes
References
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