Playwright April De Angelis on Amongst Friends

29th May 2009

 

INTERVIEW: APRIL DE ANGELIS

The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her latest black comedy, Amongst Friends (currently at the Hampstead), set in a gated community, and about her career, which started in acting and in the feminist theatre of the 1980s.

When you have a competitive society what you create is a resentment of other people’s success – and fear.