Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854593115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Book Description
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire depicts the Diggers and Ranters during the English Civil War, and their last desperate burst of revolutionary feeling before the restoration. 'Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half-truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of the false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians' - Steve Grant

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854593115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Book Description
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire depicts the Diggers and Ranters during the English Civil War, and their last desperate burst of revolutionary feeling before the restoration. 'Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half-truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of the false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians' - Steve Grant

The Skriker

The Skriker PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848424999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
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. The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994. It was revived at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2015, as part of the Manchester International Festival, starring Maxine Peake, directed by Sarah Frankcom and featuring specially commissioned music by Nico Muhly and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

Vinegar Tom

Vinegar Tom PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619731
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
The play examines gender and power relationships through the lens of 17th-century witchcraft trials in England.

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.

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 Shorts

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

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Book Description
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.

Mad Forest

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

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Book Description
"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

Serious Money

Serious Money PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408162067
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Book Description
"A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham's production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated". This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.

Cloud 9

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

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

What If If Only

What If If Only PDF Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839040269
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
Your partner's died, could things have been different? This edition also includes the resonant and surreal short piece, Air.