Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill ha reinventat la forma dramàtica amb una mirada extremament lúcida sobre les ansietats i les contradiccions dels nostres temps. Coneguda per les seves posicions feministes i de denúnc

A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.What emerges is the dreadful damage done to peoples lives by repression and the painful difficulties of lasting change.Caryl Churchills play Mad Forest was written after she, the director Mark Wing-Davey and a group of students from Londons Central School of Speech and Drama went to Romania to work with acting students there.The resulting play was first performed by students of CSSD in June 1990, only three months after their return from Romania. It was subsequently performed at the National Theatre, Bucharest, in September 1990, and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 1990.

I can see her just. Most people cant see her at all.A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killers friends. And a secret in a bottle. Four stories by Caryl Churchill.Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, in September 2019, in a production directed by James Macdonald.Caryl Churchill has remade the landscape of contemporary drama and earned herself a place among the greatsGuardian

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 20089.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 Churchills work are remarkable she never does anything twiceTelegraphThe most dazzlingly inventive living dramatist in the English languageNew York Times

Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchills Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains:Icecream - an unsettling look at British attitudes to America, and vice versa Mad Forest - Churchills response to the Romanian Revolution The Skriker - a spellbinding piece combining English folk tales with modern urban life Thyestes - a bleakly eloquent new translation of Senecas Roman tragedy (Sunday Times).Plus two collaborative pieces combining word and dance:Lives of the Great Poisoners - a libretto to music by Orlando Gough and choreography by Ian Spink A Mouthful of Birds - written with David LanCaryl Churchill has been hailed as a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writingThe Times

A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.A play that is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.Caryl Churchills This is a Chair was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre at the Duke of Yorks, London, on 25 June 1997 as part of the London International Festival of Theatre.

A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture.Bernard thought he was an only child. One day he learns the shocking truth: he is just one of a number of clones. Together, he and his father confront epic questions of identity, intimacy and belonging.Caryl Churchills play A Number pushes the boundaries of science and ethics with an astonishing twist on the dynamics of the father/son relationship. It was originally produced at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2002, winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.

"Im walking down the street and theres a door in the fence open and inside there are three women Ive seen before."Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe.Caryl Churchills play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald. It was named Best Play at the 2017 Writers Guild Awards.Caryl Churchill never does the same thing twice. Each play in her exquisite portfolio is an experiment in form. Her works are uniquely individual creationsThe Times

Someone sneezes. Someone cant get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone wont answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someones not ready to talk. Someone is her brothers mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someones never felt like this before.In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.Caryl Churchills play Love and Information was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2012.

A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UKs 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 Churchills play Far Away is a howl of anguish at the increasing and increasingly accepted levels of inhumanity in a world seemingly perpetually involved in conflict.The play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, in November 2000.

An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.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.Caryl Churchills play The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994.

You western-backed goats,They forced us into slavery and killed millions.Now they want us to accept the sinfulness of homos.It shall not work.In 2014, Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexuality Act. This short, startling play looks at what lies behind it.Caryl Churchills Pigs and Dogs premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.

Your partners died, could things have been different?Caryl Churchills short play What If If Only premiered in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2021, directed by James Macdonald.This edition also includes the resonant and surreal short piece, Air.Caryl Churchill has remade the landscape of contemporary drama and earned herself a place among the greats - GuardianA truly uncompromising theatrical voice at the top of her game... [Churchill] packs more into this 20-minute piece about death, grief and the multiverse than many writers manage at seven times the length... it has a crystalline beauty, sly humour and boundless imagination - Evening StandardQuietly astonishing... a taut distillation and a gripping realisation of a giddying idea that resonates long after the curtain falls - The StageTrust Caryl Churchill to pack more meaty matter into 20 minutes than most playwrights manage in two hours. Her surreal new short covers nothing less than bereavement, time and the universe and does so with dizzying complexity... [She demonstrates] absolute mastery of her form. Like Picasso in his late sketches, she has become the essence of herself, still challenging, thoughtful and heading in directions no one else dares... a rocket of thought to propel you into the night - WhatsonstageThere is nobody like Caryl Churchill and its hard to think of any writer in history so completely on top of their game at her age. [What If If Only is] just 20 minutes, but it contains whole worlds - Time Out

A multidisciplinary theatre piece about the most infamous poisoners in history, written by Caryl Churchill in collaboration with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink. Lives of the Great Poisoners combines elements of text, dance and song to tell the stories of famous killers from Medea to Dr Crippen.It was first performed at the Arnolfini, Bristol, in February 1991 in a production by Second Stride, the performance collective co-founded by Ian Spink, Siobhan Davies and Richard Alston.

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 about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, and money.Caryl Churchills play Cloud Nine was first staged by Joint Stock and premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979. It has since been staged all over the world.

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author.This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens up a little-known aspect of her writing, and demonstrates her remarkable versatility and breadth of concern.Abortive (Radio 3, 1971)The After-Dinner Joke (BBC TV, 1978)The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution Hot Fudge (Royal Court Theatre, 1989)The Judges Wife (BBC TV, 1972)Lovesick (Radio 3, 1967)Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen (Radio 3, 1971)Schrebers Nervous Illness (Radio 3, 1972)SeagullsThree More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly Theatre, 1980)The volume also includes an introduction by the author.

Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events.War and Peace Gaza Piece (2014) draws on Tolstoys novel and accounts of family life in Gaza.Tickets are Now On Sale (2015) explores the relationship between sponsorship and the arts.Beautiful Eyes (2017) is about a family divided by politics, and was first performed in the week of Donald Trumps inauguration.The wit, invention and structural ingenuity of Churchills work are remarkable she never does anything twiceTelegraph

Caryl Churchills Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the legacy it left behind.In the aftermath of the Civil War, England stands at a crossroads. Food shortages, economic instability, and a corrupt political system threaten to plunge the country into darkness and despair.The Parliament men who fought against the tyranny of the King now argue for stability and compromise, but the people are hungry for change.For a brief moment, a group of rebels, preachers, soldiers and dissenters dare to imagine an age of hope, a new Jerusalem in which freedom will be restored to the land.Premiered by Joint Stock at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in September 1976 during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, it toured the UK including the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1976. The play was revived at the National Theatre, London, in 1996 and again in 2015, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner.

A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.Caryl Churchills play Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? is an examination of US foreign policy and international power politics through the lens of an intense personal relationship.It was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, in November 2006.