Plays
Angela has written two highly successful one-woman plays for herself: Reader, I Married Him (about Charlotte Brontë) and After Chekhov (about Chekhov’s actress wife, Olga).
These have been performed in theatres and at arts and literature festivals all round the British Isles, and Angela has taken Reader, I Married Him to Ireland and to Sydney, Australia.
Lectures
Angela has given her dramatic lectures on Jane Austen at literature festivals and Austen gatherings in many parts of Britain, in Sydney for the Jane Austen Society of Australia, and in the US for the Jane Austen Societies of North America in Portland, Oregon, New York City, Washington DC and San Diego CA.
Her current presentations are:
Jane Austen and London, an illuminating talk about Austen’s changing experiences of London over her last twenty years.
Jane Austen’s Actors: Siddons, Kean – and Henry Crawford, a colourful exploration of actors’ lives and customs in Austen’s time.
Forthcoming Bookings
2023
November 25th, 11 a.m. at The Rose and Crown, High St., Tonbridge. JA Society, Kent branch.
2024
March 16th, 12 – 1 p.m. at Aston-by-Stone Village Hall. JA Society, Midlands branch.
May 18th, time TBA at United Augustine Church, Edinburgh. JA Society, Scottish branch.
- To enquire about booking the shows, please contact Angela here
Ballet
Angela has researched and written an exclusive mini-biography of her ballet teacher’s career with the Russian Ballet companies in the 1920s. Titled The Dancing Career of Nalda Murilova, it tells of the young English dancer’s years with the Pavlova, Diaghilev and Stroganoff Ballets, and is available to read online at https://naldamurilova.wordpress.com/
Articles and Book Reviews
Angela writes occasional articles and book reviews for Austen-related publications. Her
chapter Jane Austen and the Theatre will be included in Edinburgh University Press’s forthcoming publication Jane Austen and the Arts.