April De Angelis
Sunday 20th May 2012, 8pm
Southwark Playhouse
Tickets £8
Listen to April in conversation with Chris Campbell, Literary Manager of the Royal Court, about her life, career and work; hear a reading from one of her plays; and join us in discussion with April about her themes, styles and methods of writing.
Training originally as an actress, April De Angelis soon became one of the most exciting voices writing in theatre in the late eighties and early nineties. Her work is frank and funny and often features historical figures. Her play Jumpy, starring Tamsin Grieg, was a huge success at the Royal Court last year and transfers to West End in August. Plays also include: Playhouse Creatures (West End, 1993); The Positive Hour (Out of Joint/ Hampstead Theatre/ West End, 1997); A Warwickshire Testimony (RSC, 1999); A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint, 2002); Wild East (Royal Court, 2005).
‘A brilliantly funny, brilliantly evil and brilliantly hopeful comedy for our schizophrenic times… The writing is tough, taut, complex, allusive and vigorously theatrical’ (The Sunday Times on Wild East)
Tickets from Southwark Playhouse Box Office: 020 7407 0234
Online: http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/events/write-to-play-with-april-de-angelis/