Cockpit), and Kirsty Stuart. Naked Productionsâ Polly Thomas directs.
Angela centers on the playwrightâs mother, at the age of 84 and suffering with dementia, as she looks back across her life. Cutting between Angela in her old age and in her youth, the play depicts her struggle with depression and the challenges of her own aspirations, set against Markâs experience of beginning to learn ballet in his fifties.
Playwright Ravenhill says, âWith the death of my mum in 2019, I was drawn for the first time to write an autobiographical play. I was particularly interested to explore the way culture high and low had impacted on Mum s life and our lives as a family. The play is constructed around a series of encounters with children s literature, classical ballet, amateur theatre, and popular songâ encounters that shaped my mum s sense of self and her relationship with me. Both my parents are from working class backgrounds which gives a specific turn to their relati