Author: April De Angelis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571378242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze!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
April De Angelis Plays 2
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571378242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze!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
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571378242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
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
After Electra
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571326161
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
I blame the books they learned to read with. Daddy at the office. Mummy looking out of the window while she's washing up. I should have burnt them. 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. A moving black comedy that reimagines the meaning of family, April De Angelis' After Electra premiered at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, in April 2015 before transferring to the Tricycle Theatre, London.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571326161
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
I blame the books they learned to read with. Daddy at the office. Mummy looking out of the window while she's washing up. I should have burnt them. 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. A moving black comedy that reimagines the meaning of family, April De Angelis' After Electra premiered at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, in April 2015 before transferring to the Tricycle Theatre, London.
Extinct
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571373895
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
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. A woman stands alone on stage. She has one hour to change our future. One hour to avert catastrophe. She'll give everything she has. Addressing the climate emergency head on, Extinct includes testimony from environmental activists. Extinct opened at Stratford East in June 2021.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571373895
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
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. A woman stands alone on stage. She has one hour to change our future. One hour to avert catastrophe. She'll give everything she has. Addressing the climate emergency head on, Extinct includes testimony from environmental activists. Extinct opened at Stratford East in June 2021.
Playhouse Creatures
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN: 9780573130076
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Publisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN: 9780573130076
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Jumpy
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571283470
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
-You're having some kind of crisis. -It's called being fifty. You must be having it too. 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, Jumpy by April De Angelis premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2011.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571283470
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
-You're having some kind of crisis. -It's called being fifty. You must be having it too. 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, Jumpy by April De Angelis premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2011.
Plays One
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571197095
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
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
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571197095
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
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
The Positive Hour
Author: April De Angelis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571191390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A comedy with a hard centre, this play concerns Miranda, a social worker. Miranda has her clients' problems to contend with at work, and her own at home with Roger, her partner, and Emma, her best friend who's having a mid-life crisis.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571191390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A comedy with a hard centre, this play concerns Miranda, a social worker. Miranda has her clients' problems to contend with at work, and her own at home with Roger, her partner, and Emma, her best friend who's having a mid-life crisis.
Finance, Terror, and Science on Stage
Author: Kerstin Frank
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823391429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the contribution of British plays to key social, political, and intellectual debates since 2000. It explores some of the most pressing concerns that have dominated the public discourse in Britain in the last decade, focusing on their representation in dramatic texts. Each essay provides an in-depth analysis of one play, assessing its particular contribution to the debate in question. The book aims to show how contemporary drama has developed unique ways to present the complexities and ambiguities of certain issues with aesthetic as well as emotional appeal.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823391429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the contribution of British plays to key social, political, and intellectual debates since 2000. It explores some of the most pressing concerns that have dominated the public discourse in Britain in the last decade, focusing on their representation in dramatic texts. Each essay provides an in-depth analysis of one play, assessing its particular contribution to the debate in question. The book aims to show how contemporary drama has developed unique ways to present the complexities and ambiguities of certain issues with aesthetic as well as emotional appeal.
Lives in Play
Author: Ryan Claycomb
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118404
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118404
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University
The Woman who Cooked Her Husband
Author: Debbie Isitt
Publisher: Chappell Plays
ISBN: 9780856761638
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Chappell Plays
ISBN: 9780856761638
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description