Books by April De Angelis

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. This is a moving black comedy that reimagines the meaning of family.

A collection of short plays curated by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre.

It's 1773 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Caught between financial pressures and artistic ambition, Garrick must decide if he can risk staging a play that could make or break his career.A Laughing Matter was produced by Out of Joint and the National Theatre, London.

Discusses four stage and film adaptations which demonstrate how contemporary dramatists have transformed well-known novels. The novels are Jane Austen's "Persuasion", Charles Dicken's "Great Expectations", Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter".

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

A unique and ground-breaking collection of plays.