The Ideas You Nearly Throw Away
On The Third Half the other week, Scott sat down with April De Angelis — one of the UK’s most established and respected playwrights and librettists.
Decades of work across theatre and opera. Award-winning. Still writing, still pushing, still curious.
And what we ended up with wasn’t an interview. It was a proper conversation.
About:
• how ideas actually form — and which ones you nearly throw away
• writing as a discipline, not a moment of magic
• why great theatre begins with character
• what it really takes to hold an audience
• and how your work can shift direction when something in the real world cuts through
There’s a brilliant story in here about a very famous playwright and the ideas he threw away.
And there are a couple of moments — the kind that don’t usually make it into standard profiles — where April talks very openly about what’s shaped her more recent work.
Genuinely one of our favourite conversations so far on The Third Half.
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