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Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio.

Her stage plays include: Owners (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court, 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock, 1976); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment, 1976); Traps (Royal Court, 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock, 1979); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly and Royal Court, 1980); Top Girls (Royal Court, 1982); Fen (Joint Stock, 1983); Softcops (RSC, 1984); A Mouthful of Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock, 1986); Serious Money (Royal Court and Wyndham's, London, then Public Theater, New York, 1987); Icecream (Royal Court, 1989); Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama, then Royal Court, 1990); Lives of the Great Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1991); The Skriker (Royal National Theatre, 1994); Thyestes translated from Seneca (Royal Court, 1994); Hotel with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1997); This is a Chair (Royal Court, 1997); Blue Heart (Joint Stock, 1997); Far Away (Royal Court, 2000, and Albery, London, 2001, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002); A Number (Royal Court, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2004); A Dream Play after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre, 2005); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court, 2006, then Public Theater, New York, 2008); Bliss, translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court, 2008); Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza (Royal Court, 2009); Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012); Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012); Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015); Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016), Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016), Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. (Royal Court, 2019) and What If If Only (Royal Court, 2021).

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Seven Jewish Children

A short play written in response to the situation in Gaza at the time of writing in January 2009.

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A Mouthful of Birds

A collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

    The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution

    A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.

    Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

      Three More Sleepless Nights

      An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.

      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

        Lovesick

        A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

          Hot Fudge

          The competitive games of various professionals and their spouses present an amoral world where money is all and lies are the only truth.

          Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

            Seagulls

            A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.

            Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

              The After-Dinner Joke

              A short play satirising the charity business, written for television. First broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.

              Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

                Schreber's Nervous Illness

                A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.

                Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

                  The Judge's Wife

                  A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.

                  Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

                    Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

                    A short play set in a dystopian future, where a couple in a tower block hide from the violence and pollution outside.

                    Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

                      Abortive

                      A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.

                      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts