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.


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".


Serious Money

Serious Money

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1408162067

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"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham's production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated". This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.


Fen

Fen

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780573619151

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Val, Shirley, Nell, Alice and Angela work in Mrs Hassett's gang. Frank works on Mr Tewson's farm. Val leaves her family for Frank. A love story with moguls and boggarts. 'Fen' has been created through the Joint Stock method, with the writer working closely with the director and actors over a long period of workshops and rehearsals.


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.


The Theatre of Caryl Churchill

The Theatre of Caryl Churchill

Author: R. Darren Gobert

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1408154536

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The Theatre of Caryl Churchill documents and analyses the major plays and productions of one of Britain's greatest and most innovative playwrights. Drawing on hundreds of never-before-seen archival sources from the US and the UK, it provides an essential guide to Churchill's groundbreaking work for students and theatregoers. Each chapter illuminates connections across plays and explores major scripts alongside unpublished and unfinished projects. Each considers the rehearsal room, the stage, and the printed text. Each demonstrates how Churchill has pushed the boundaries of dramatic aesthetics while posing urgent political and theoretical questions. But since each maps Churchill's work in a different way, each deploys a different reading practice - for many approaches are necessary to characterise such a restlessly imaginative and prolific career. Through its five interlocking parts, The Theatre of Caryl Churchill tells a story about the playwright, her work, and its place in contemporary drama.


Ice Cream with Hot Fudge

Ice Cream with Hot Fudge

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780573622342

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Two plays which can be performed either separately or as a double-bill.


Cloud 9

Cloud 9

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0415901359

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A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and "lifestyle" are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt.


Churchill Plays: 2

Churchill Plays: 2

Author: Caryl Churchill

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1408177498

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Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert" (Sunday Times); Fen scrutinises the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy" (Financial Times) while Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius...the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place." (Daily Telegraph)


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.