The Theatre of Caryl Churchill

The Theatre of Caryl Churchill
Author: R. Darren Gobert
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781408154533

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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 Each chapter illuminates connections across plays and explores major scripts alongside unpublished and unfinished projects.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.

Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publsiher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1979
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573618747

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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. -- Samuel French.

Fen

Fen
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publsiher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1984
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 0573619158

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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.

Mad Forest

Mad Forest
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publsiher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1992
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573693323

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"This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London's Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen by ordinary people trying to live in peace." -- Publisher's description

Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill
Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781134281930

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One 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.

The Plays of Caryl Churchill

The Plays of Caryl Churchill
Author: Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publsiher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991-08-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: UCSC:32106010276233

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This study focuses on themes and techniques of empowerment in the full range of produced plays by Caryl Churchill from 1960 to the present. The playwright is well known for combining theatrical inventiveness with uncompromising social critique. She is one of the very few contemporary women playwrights to have achieved international prominence, and she has done so on the basis of a forthright socialist-feminist stand.

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
Author: Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2009-12-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781139825344

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Caryl 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.

Plays

Plays
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1985
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0415901960

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Cloud nine: Relationshiops-- between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria, and sex.