The play centres on the playwright’s mother, at the age of 84 and living with dementia, as she looks back across her life.

The play cuts between Angela in her old age, her memories and mind failing her, and in her youth - growing up, moving away from her roots as the world of drama welcomed her. It depicts her aspirations, her struggle with depression and the challenges of becoming a mother all poignantly set against Mark’s experience of beginning to learn ballet, his lifelong passion, in his fifties.

Exquisitely observed and painfully honest, Angela is an emotive exploration of working-class motherhood in the 1960s, told by one of Britain’s best-loved dramatists as we have never heard him before.

CAST
Julie, Nurse 1 and Plummy Woman - Nadia Albina
Doctor Adetiba, and Director - Dermot Daly
Angela - Pam Ferris
Doctor Mansoor and Plummy Man - Raj Ghatak
Young Angela - Matti Houghton
The Fox and Doctor Carter - Olivier Huband
Ted - Toby Jones
Young Mark - Jackson Laing
Angela’s mum, Ballet teacher, Nurse 2 and Ivy - Alexandra Mathie
Mark - Joseph Millson
The Social Worker, Ballet woman and Nurse 3 - Kirsty Stuart

CREATIVE TEAM
Writer - Mark Ravenhill
Director - Polly Thomas
Assistant Director - Emma Lynne Harley.
Composer - Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Sound Design - John Scott
Sound Recordist - Louis Blatherwick

ANGELA

Sundance - the debut single from Quiet Boy will be released on 26th August 2016.
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Quiet Boy is a project born out of nostalgia, but the sound is far from throwback. The first single to be taken from a debut album due for release in early 2017, Sundance is infectious dream-electronica, hooky enough to dance to and haunting enough to provoke a visceral reaction.
 
Quiet Boy is a solo project written and performed by Gaz Tomlinson with Russell Ditchfield, produced by Nick Trepka.

Sundance

A kind of cover of an auld Irish tune that I love. Listen with headphones if you want to hear binaural bits.

Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded

Redeem is the first single to be revealed from Quiet Boy’s debut EP Earwig, due for release in Spring 2017. The track showcases a bold song writing and vocal approach that comes directly from the heart. It's hooky, infectious, heartbreaking dream-electronica.

ANGELA

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