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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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Pigs and Dogs

Pigs and Dogs

By Caryl Churchill

A short, startling play about Uganda's 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act and what lies behind it.

A Number

A Number

By Caryl Churchill

A fascinating meditation on human cloning, personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture.

Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

By Caryl Churchill

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
    A Mouthful of Birds

    A Mouthful of Birds

    By Caryl Churchill and David Lan

    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
      Mad Forest

      Mad Forest

      By Caryl Churchill

      A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.

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      Lovesick

      Lovesick

      By Caryl Churchill

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

      Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
        Love and Information

        Love and Information

        By Caryl Churchill

        From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

        Lives of the Great Poisoners

        Lives of the Great Poisoners

        By Caryl Churchill

        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. 

        Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

        Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

        By Caryl Churchill

        The story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England during the English Civil War.

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        The Judge's Wife

        The Judge's Wife

        By Caryl Churchill

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

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
          Icecream

          Icecream

          By Caryl Churchill

          An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.

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          Hotel

          Hotel

          By Caryl Churchill

          An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.

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