Caryl Churchill

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.

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.

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

The fourth volume of the collected plays of one of the best playwrights alive.Written over a period of ten years and evincing an extraordinary range of topics and techniques, this fourth volume of Caryl Churchills collected plays confirms her standing as a playwright who is amongst the best half-dozen now writing (The Times).This volume includes:Hotel (Schauspielhaus, Hannover, 1997), an innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.This is a Chair (Royal Court Theatre, 1997), a short play about the surreal nature of modern life.Blue Heart (Out of Joint & Royal Court Theatre, 1997), two linked one-act plays, both startlingly innovative, exploring the underpinnings of family relationships.Far Away (Royal Court, 2000), a brilliantly unsettling play about conflict and its unsettling effect on our lives and humanity.A Number (Royal Court, 2002), a fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture.Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court, 2006),examining US foreign policy and international power politics through the lens of an intense personal relationship.A Dream Play (National Theatre, London, 2005), a spare and resonant version of August Strindbergs 1901 masterpiece.

A short play by one of the UKs leading dramatists.No one could blame me. Ive been hurt. Youre a monster.A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another countryCaryl Churchills play Ding Dong the Wicked was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, in October 2012. It was presented alongside Churchills full-length play, Love and Information, which was then being premiered at the Royal Court.

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.

Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UKs leading playwrights.Hearts Desire sees a family awaiting their daughters return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it keeps veering off in unexpected and ridiculous directions.Blue Kettle tells the story of conman Derek and the five women he misleads into believing he is their biological son. Try as he might, Dereks plans are scuppered as the play is invaded by a virus.In Caryl Churchills ever-inventive style, the two plays in Blue Heart pull apart language and structure in a way that is theatrically remarkable and fast paced, in a stirring yet truthful exploration of family and relationships.Blue Heart was first performed at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, in August 1997 in a touring co-production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre.This edition was published alongside the first major revival of Blue Heart, nearly twenty years after its premiere, in a co-production by the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, and Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol, in 2016.

An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.Hotel is in two parts:In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people tourists, couples and business people spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement.In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance.This volume contains Churchills libretto, plus articles on the making of Hotel.

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.

A short play about death by Caryl Churchill.A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home.Where is he now? Is his heart lighter than a feather? How did he die? And what happens to his friends?Caryl Churchills play Here We Go was premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.

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.

"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