"CarylChurchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing? a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at
In the first scene of Far Away, a girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar. By the end of the play, several years later, the whole world is at war - inc
With two distinctive acts, Blue Heart adheres to the award-winning playwright’s famously experimental style. This revised edition features two related parts—Heart’s Desire and Blue Kettle—both teasing
Premiered at the Royal National Theatre, this extraordinary new play by one of Britain's leading playwrights combines English folk tales with modern urban life. In terms of its language alone, it is a
Cloud 9 not only marked the theatrical breakthrough of preeminent British playwright CarylChurchill, but proved a milestone in the portrayal of sexual liberation and feminism. "A playwright of genuin
In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions"—Plays and PlayersVinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-centur
"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" —The London Standard "Top Girls brings five great
Serious Money is perhaps CarylChurchill's most provocative play. It is a satirical study of the effects of the "Big Bang" boom of financial markets in the 1980s and how it gave rise to hectic, chaoti
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 Pa
"Cloud Nine" is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.The first act takes placei n Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonia
