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).
Three Short Plays
Three short plays by one of the most inventive dramatists working today, each written in response to political events.
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Here We Go
A short play about death by Caryl Churchill.
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A short, startling play about Uganda's 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act and what lies behind it.
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£6.99£5.59Add to basketEbook£6.99£5.59This is a Chair
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
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£5.99£4.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£5.99£4.79Seven 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
By Caryl Churchill and David LanA 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: ThreeThe 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: ShortsThree More Sleepless Nights
An explosive short play about human interaction and love-tangled relationships.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: ShortsLovesick
A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: ShortsHot 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: ShortsSeagulls
A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: ShortsThe 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
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