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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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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
    Schreber's Nervous Illness

    Schreber's Nervous Illness

    By Caryl Churchill

    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

      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
        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
          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
            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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            Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

            Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?

            By Caryl Churchill

            A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.

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            A Dream Play

            A Dream Play

            By August Strindberg Adapted by Caryl Churchill

            Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.

            A Number

            A Number

            By Caryl Churchill

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

            Far Away

            Far Away

            By Caryl Churchill

            A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists.

            Thyestes

            Thyestes

            By Seneca Translated by Caryl Churchill

            Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.

            This is a Chair

            This is a Chair

            By Caryl Churchill

            A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.

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