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Playhouse Creatures by April de Angelis (Stage, 2019)

The year is 1669 a bawdy and troublesome time. Theaters have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression.

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There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage. Playhouse Creatures focuses on five of the most famous (Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton) to provide a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of Restoration actresses.

William Jesmond De Clermont Bath, United Kingdom

An experienced all rounder with work on Stage, Screen, Radio and the Edinburgh Fringe.

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