Emma Dennis-Edwards
“My knowledge about Flowers is bare strong. Cos dat’s what I’m doing at college. I can talk about flowers forever. However, I share a name with dese… Angelique.”
Funeral Flowers follows the story of Angelique, a seventeen-year-old whose dreams of being a florist are a refuge from a complicated adolescence. With her mum in prison, Angelique faces bullying, abuse and growing up in the care system.
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Emma Dennis-Edwards is a writer and performer of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage, who trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School and has been part of a number of prestigious writing programmes with theatres such as the Royal Court, Soho Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith. ...