Escaped Alone

Cast: 4f, all playing age at least 70

Staging: Single exterior setting (a backyard)

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Paperback, 64 pages ISBN: 9781848425491Publication Date:
21 Jan 2016
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook, 64 pages ISBN: 9781780017136Publication Date:
28 Jan 2016
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 2016

Escaped Alone

By Caryl Churchill

Paperback £10.99£8.79

Ebook £10.99£8.79

Professional Production On Stage at:
Everyman, Cork
From Thu 12 Jun 2025 to Sat 14 Jun 2025
  • Best Play, Writers' Guild Awards - 2017

Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe.

Caryl Churchill's play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald. It was named Best Play at the 2017 Writers' Guild Awards.

'Caryl Churchill never does the same thing twice. Each play in her exquisite portfolio is an experiment in form. Her works are uniquely individual creations' The Times

Escaped Alone is also available in the collection Caryl Churchill Plays: Five.

'I’m walking down the street and there’s a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I’ve seen before.'

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'A light-on-its-feet, elliptical view of apocalypse… this is fantasy intricately wired into current politics. It is intimate and vast. Domestic and wild'

Observer

'Packs a formidable charge: Churchill has now perfected an elliptical style as individual and as powerful as that of Samuel Beckett… created and conveyed with mastery'

Financial Times

'A menacing, joyous, brilliant return... it's hard to imagine you'll come across a more brilliant play this year'

Time Out

'A magnificent show which demands repeated viewing to reveal its full richness'

The Arts Desk

'Packs an amazing amount into a modest frame… this is Churchill at her best'

Guardian

'Startling, chilling... Not a single word is wasted... Churchill's wit rises and shines'

The Times

'Reaches heights of darkly comic delirium'

The Stage

Cast: 4f, all playing age at least 70

Staging:Single exterior setting (a backyard)

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Paperback,64 pages ISBN: 9781848425491Publication Date:
21 Jan 2016
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook,64 pages ISBN: 9781780017136Publication Date:
28 Jan 2016
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Professional Production On Stage at:
Everyman, Cork Thu 12 Jun 2025 - Sat 14 Jun 2025

Also by Caryl Churchill:

Hot Fudge
Bliss
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Icecream
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Far Away
This is a Chair
Love and Information
Seagulls
Blue Heart
A Dream Play
War and Peace Gaza Piece
Abortive
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
What If If Only
Thyestes
The Skriker
Beautiful Eyes
Hotel
Pigs and Dogs
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
Three More Sleepless Nights
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
Cloud Nine
A Mouthful of Birds
Air
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Traps
A Number
Mad Forest
Tickets are Now On Sale
Ding Dong the Wicked
The After-Dinner Joke
Seven Jewish Children
Lives of the Great Poisoners
Caryl Churchill Plays: Four
Lovesick
Here We Go
Three Short Plays
The Judge's Wife
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

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