Plays Four

Plays Four PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".

Plays Four

Plays Four PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".

Churchill Plays: 1

Churchill Plays: 1 PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472536738
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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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 to this century..." (Tribune); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is set during the Civil War and "unflinchingly shows the intolerance that was the obverse side of the demand for common justice. Deftly, it sketches in the kind of social conditions.. that led to hunger for revolution...The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." (The Guardian) Cloud Nine sheds light on some of the British Empire's repressed dark side and is "a marvelous play - sometimes scurrilous, always observed with wicked accuracy, and ultimately, surprisingly, rather moving. It plunges straight to the heart of the endless convolutions of sexual mores...and does so with acrobatic wit." (Guardian) Owners:"I was in an old woman's flat when a young man offering her money to move came round, that was one of the starting points of the play" (Caryl Churchill). The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with Cloud Nine.

Plays

Plays PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415901963
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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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.

Churchill

Churchill PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136797734
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Book Description
First Published in 1985.

Churchill Shorts

Churchill Shorts PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854590855
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Caryl Churchill's 'Three More Sleepless Nights' is a play about romantic relationships turning sour. It was first staged at the Soho Poly, London, on 9 June 1980.

Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618741
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
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.

Churchill’s Socialism

Churchill’s Socialism PDF Author: Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527554678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
Although now celebrated as a world-leading playwright, Caryl Churchill has received little attention for her socialism, which has been frequently overlooked in favour of emphasising gendered identities and postmodernist themes. Churchill’s Socialism examines eight of Churchill’s plays with reference to socialist theories and political movements. This well-researched and dynamic new book reframes Churchill’s work, positioning her plays within socialist discourses, and producing persuasive political readings of her drama that reflect much more of the political challenge that the plays pose. It additionally explores her uneasy relationship with postmodernism, which presents itself particularly in Churchill’s later plays. The book contains a very helpful chapter on socialist contexts, which outlines some of the key events, debates, and movements during the late 1960s up until the early 2000s. This chapter also offers an incisive critique of the easy acceptance by some socialists of a postmodernist rejection of grand narratives and political agency. An in depth examination of the rarely explored interconnections of utopianism and theatre, forms another chapter, where all eight of Churchill’s plays, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Vinegar Tom, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Mad Forest, The Skriker, and Far Away, are introduced. The plays are then discussed in pairs in a further four chapters with reference to communist historiography, the class/gender intersection, the end-of-history thesis, ecocritical challenges and postmodernism.

Cloud 9

Cloud 9 PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415901359
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and "lifestyle" are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt.

Churchill Plays: 1

Churchill Plays: 1 PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472536746
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Book Description
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 to this century..." (Tribune); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is set during the Civil War and "unflinchingly shows the intolerance that was the obverse side of the demand for common justice. Deftly, it sketches in the kind of social conditions.. that led to hunger for revolution...The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." (The Guardian) Cloud Nine sheds light on some of the British Empire's repressed dark side and is "a marvelous play - sometimes scurrilous, always observed with wicked accuracy, and ultimately, surprisingly, rather moving. It plunges straight to the heart of the endless convolutions of sexual mores...and does so with acrobatic wit." (Guardian) Owners:"I was in an old woman's flat when a young man offering her money to move came round, that was one of the starting points of the play" (Caryl Churchill). The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with Cloud Nine.

Mad Forest

Mad Forest PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573693328
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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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