April De Angelis is an acclaimed writer whose extensive theatre work includes
My Brilliant Friend, a two-part dramatisation of Elena Ferrante’s epic family saga (Rose Theatre Kingston);
After Electra (Theatre Royal Plymouth and Tricycle Theatre 2015);
Rune (New Vic Theatre Stoke 2015);
Gastronauts (Royal Court Upstairs, 2013);
Jumpy (Royal Court 2011 and Duke of York’s Theatre 2012, Melbourne and Sydney 2015); an adaptation of
Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep, 2008);
A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint at National Theatre, 2001);
A Warwickshire Testimony (RSC, 1999);
The Positive Hour (Out of Joint at Hampstead Theatre, 1997);
Playhouse Creatures (Old Vic Theatre, 1993; revived at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2013); and
The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (The Old Fire Station Oxford, 1991; revived at the Bristol Old Vic, 2015). Her new adaptation of
Frankenstein opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in Spring 2018. Current work includes commissions for the Royal & Derngate Northampton and BBC Radio 4.
Journalist Lara, and her ex-MP and crime-writer husband Richard, are happy and successful. Having moved to a fashionable gated community they invite their old neighbours Caitlin and Joe to dinner. When the security system fails, the food is delivered by a stranger and the dinner...
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