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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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Abortive

Abortive

By Caryl Churchill

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

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
    The After-Dinner Joke

    The After-Dinner Joke

    By Caryl Churchill

    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
      Air

      Air

      By Caryl Churchill

      A resonant and surreal short piece published alongside What If If Only.

      Published in volume What If If Only
        Beautiful Eyes

        Beautiful Eyes

        By Caryl Churchill

        A short play about a family divided by politics, first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
          Bliss

          Bliss

          By Olivier Choinière Translated by Caryl Churchill

          A wild and slippery fantasy from French-Canadian writer Olivier Choinière, translated by Caryl Churchill, exploring our insatiable appetite for private lives made public.

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          Blue Heart

          Blue Heart

          By Caryl Churchill

          Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.

          Caryl Churchill Plays: Five

          Caryl Churchill Plays: Five

          By Caryl Churchill

          The fifth volume of the collected plays of one of our finest playwrights.

          Caryl Churchill Plays: Four

          Caryl Churchill Plays: Four

          By Caryl Churchill

          The fourth volume of the collected plays of one of the best playwrights alive.

          Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

          Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

          By Caryl Churchill

          Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this is the third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays,

          Caryl Churchill: Shorts

          Caryl Churchill: Shorts

          By Caryl Churchill

          Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author.

          Cloud Nine

          Cloud Nine

          By Caryl Churchill

          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.

          Ding Dong the Wicked

          Ding Dong the Wicked

          By Caryl Churchill

          A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists.

          A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war.