Plays One
by April de Angelis

Name: Plays One
Brand: April de Angelis
SKU: 9780571197095
Rating: 3.5 (52 reviews)

Highlights

British

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate this collection for its strong female roles and relevance to drama students. Many find it modern, humorous, and an excellent resource for young actresses. The compilation is especially praised for its entertaining content and educational value.

Strong female rolesModern and funnyUseful for drama studentsOne play felt strange

Synopsis

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.