Essays on Caryl Churchill
Author: Sheila Mary Rabillard
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
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Author: Sheila Mary Rabillard
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Buse
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780719057229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0521493226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1139825348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation – her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1350028592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarlene 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.
Author: Elin Diamond
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1134982135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw. Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-27
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1134281927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write consistently hard-edged and innovative work. Always unpredictable in her stage experiments, her plays have stretched the relationships between form and content, actor and spectator to their limits. This new critical introduction to Churchill examines her political agendas, her collaborations with other practitioners, and looks at specific production histories of her plays. Churchill's work continues to have profound resonances with her audiences and this book explores her preoccupation with representing such phenomena as capitalism, genocide, environmental issues, identity, psychiatry and mental illness, parenting, violence and terrorism. It includes new interviews with actors and directors of her work, and gathers together source material from her wide-ranging career.
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher:
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781848428737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaryl 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.
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0746312083
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Author: Phyllis R. Randall
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 224
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