Lives of the Great Poisoners

Cast: 4f 5m (incl. dancers, singers and actors) minimum

Staging: Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 45 pages ISBN: 9781780014326Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991

Lives of the Great Poisoners

By Caryl Churchill

Ebook £8.99£7.19

A multidisciplinary theatre piece about the most infamous poisoners in history, written by Caryl Churchill in collaboration with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink. 

Lives of the Great Poisoners combines elements of text, dance and song to tell the stories of famous killers from Medea to Dr Crippen.

It was first performed at the Arnolfini, Bristol, in February 1991 in a production by Second Stride, the performance collective co-founded by Ian Spink, Siobhan Davies and Richard Alston.

Lives of the Great Poisoners is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

Cast: 4f 5m (incl. dancers, singers and actors) minimum

Staging:Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,45 pages ISBN: 9781780014326Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by Caryl Churchill:

Mad Forest
Seagulls
Caryl Churchill Plays: Four
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Ding Dong the Wicked
Hotel
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Escaped Alone
The Skriker
Thyestes
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Beautiful Eyes
Tickets are Now On Sale
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
This is a Chair
War and Peace Gaza Piece
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
Blue Heart
The Judge's Wife
Air
Three Short Plays
Abortive
A Mouthful of Birds
What If If Only
Cloud Nine
Here We Go
A Dream Play
Icecream
The After-Dinner Joke
Bliss
Far Away
Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Love and Information
Pigs and Dogs
A Number
Three More Sleepless Nights
Seven Jewish Children
Lovesick
Traps
Hot Fudge

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