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ANGELA HOWARD
Nationality: English
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Angela Howard is co-founder of a Theatre company called Metafizz which devises and performs plays of a spiritual and psychic nature. Metafizz creates plays which portray real life experience objectively and with sensitivity. Performances in small venues are followed by audience discussion and sharing.
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below is a list of Angela Howard's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Aura Of Confusion Can This Be England? Lottie's ChoiceAura Of Confusion
Synopsis:
Dr. Platchett-Synge has taken a holiday cottage in order to complete his article for the Lancet. Peony, his delightful though chaos-provoking wife, follows him when she realises that the community founded by her current Guru is nearby. Owing to a typing error on the part of love-struck Poppy, the cottage has been double booked and Kevin and Joyce Frew, bent on robbing a Building Society, soon arrive to claim it. as the evening progresses it appears that Poppy's dubious fiance, who failed to turn up for their wedding, and Peony's Indian Guru, intent on nabbing her inheritance, bear a striking resemblance to a con-man wanted by the police.
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New Theatre Publications (1999) 978-1840942507
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Comedy
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Top of PageCan This Be England?
Synopsis:
The title of the play, Can This be England? is an allusion to the disbelief that she and the others feel at how people on benefits are being treated, she says. And she unashamedly describes the play, in which she also acts, as a "dramatic consciousness-raising exercise". Can This be England? deals with the quagmire that awaits people caught in the welfare system. Scenes are set in jobcentres and in characters' homes addressing some of what Neville calls the "everyday absurdity" of what occurs, such as when people with disabilities and fluctuating health conditions are wrongly declared "fit for work" inflicting additional suffering in the process. It also examines the dilemmas faced by staff in jobcentres, many of whom Neville believes feel stripped of any power to do good and are crumbling under the strain as managers enforce new rules.
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written by Angela Neville, Angela Howard and Jackie Howard
1st Produced:
Quaker Meeting Houses, Essex 2015
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageLottie's Choice
Synopsis:
It is late Victorian england and everyone is talking about psychic phenomena and the new religion - Spiritualism. the scientific world is sceptical but needs proof. One of their number, the well-respected William Crookes, decides to experiment, and does so, rigorously testing some of the foremost mediums of the day. His colleagues are delighted, but delight turns to shock and then to howls of derision when Crookes' research proves to be positive and he announces the discovery of a new energy - the "psychic force". Now out of favour with the majority of his colleagues, Crookes desperately needs to rebuild his career in order to support his wife, Nelly, and their large family. although still fascinated by the "psychic force", he is compelled to turn his back on it and resume respectable scientific work. But then one wet Spring evening a young medium comes to his door and begs him to test her powers. Lottie seems to have a glittering future ahead of her, but does she? the play reveals a dark world of greed and exploitation. Lottie's future is in the balance and tonight she must make her choice. apart from William Crookes and his wife, Nellie, the characters are fictional, but the action depends upon letters and articles written at the time and could possibly have happened.
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Jasper Publishing Ltd 2008 978-1-905993-84-0
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Genre:
Play - One act, Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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