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Caryl Churchill - Plays 2 - Softcops/Top Girls/Fen/Serious Money by Caryl Churchill
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Methuen Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" —The London Standard"Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness an ...Show more
Churchill Plays: 1 by Caryl Churchill
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Contemporary Dramatists Ser.
In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of and ...Show more
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is ...Show more
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill's play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 201 ...Show more
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Nick Hern Books Drama Classics
[handle]The newest work by the playwright Tony Kushner calls "the greatest living English playwright." [body]The newest work by the playwright Tony Kushner calls "the greatest living English playwright." "Far Away" is a howl of anguish at the increasing--and increasingly accepted--levels of inhumanity i ...Show more
Far Away - Caryl Churchill by Caryl Churchill
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. Caryl Churchill ...Show more
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
Category: Art and Design
"Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing... a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting." -Benedict Nightingale "[A] thought-churning, deepl ...Show more
Plays: v. 3 by Caryl Churchill
Category: Plays | Series: Collected plays
Includes: "Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Shriker, Lives of the Great Poisoners" and "A Mouthful of Birds, " as well as an introduction by the author.
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Classics
Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and ...Show more