Plays Four

Plays Four

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".


The Skriker

The Skriker

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781848424999

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In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own. The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994. It was revived at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2015, as part of the Manchester International Festival, starring Maxine Peake, directed by Sarah Frankcom and featuring specially commissioned music by Nico Muhly and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.


Churchill Shorts

Churchill Shorts

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781854590855

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Caryl Churchill's 'Three More Sleepless Nights' is a play about romantic relationships turning sour. It was first staged at the Soho Poly, London, on 9 June 1980.


Mad Forest

Mad Forest

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780573693328

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"This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London's Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen by ordinary people trying to live in peace." -- Publisher's description


Caryl Churchill Plays: Five

Caryl Churchill Plays: Five

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781848428249

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In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction by the author, this volume contains: Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2009): a short play about seven families wondering how to protect their children, written at the time of the bombing of Gaza by Israel in 2008-9. Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012): a fast-moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012): two families on opposite sides of a war, locked in identical hatred. Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015): a play about dying and being dead. Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016): three old friends and an unexpected neighbour have tea in a sunny back yard, and face catastrophes. Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016): a look at how colonialism crushed the fluidity of sexuality in Africa and brought a new intolerance, as shown in the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. Also included are three previously unpublished short plays, each written in response to political events: War and Peace Gaza Piece (2014), Tickets are Now On Sale (2015) and Beautiful Eyes (2017). 'The wit, invention and structural ingenuity of Churchill's work are remarkable... she never does anything twice' Telegraph 'What is extraordinary about Churchill is her capacity as a dramatist to go on reinventing the wheel' Guardian


Top Girls

Top Girls

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1350028592

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Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become a seminal play of the modern theatre. Set during a period of British politics dominated by the presence of the newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Churchill's play prompts us to question our notions of women's success and solidarity. Its sharp look at the society and politics of the 1980s is combined with a timeless examination of women's choices and restrictions regarding career and family. This new Student Edition features an introduction by Sophie Bush, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK prepared with the contemporary student in mind. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains: · A chronology of the play and the playwright's life and work · an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created · a succinct overview of the creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of the piece · an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text · a bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study.


Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

Author: Alicia Tycer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1441158294

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Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the dramatic canon. Top Girls is one of Churchill's most well known and often studied works, using an all female cast to critique bourgeois feminism during the Thatcher era.


Far Away (Donmar Edition)

Far Away (Donmar Edition)

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781848428737

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Caryl Churchill's dazzling play about a world sliding into chaos, in a new edition published alongside the play's revival at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2020.


Softcops

Softcops

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Using the memoirs of two notorious 19th century French criminals, explores the theme of law and order through incidents in their lives, and by examining the way that social institutions lead us to conform through discipline and punishment to accepted patterns of behaviour.