Lives of the Great Poisoners

Cast: 4f 5m (incl. dancers, singers and actors) minimum

Staging: Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 45 pages ISBN: 9781780014326Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991

Lives of the Great Poisoners

By Caryl Churchill

Ebook £8.99£7.19

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. 

Lives of the Great Poisoners combines elements of text, dance and song to tell the stories of famous killers from Medea to Dr Crippen.

It was first performed at the Arnolfini, Bristol, in February 1991 in a production by Second Stride, the performance collective co-founded by Ian Spink, Siobhan Davies and Richard Alston.

Lives of the Great Poisoners is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

Cast: 4f 5m (incl. dancers, singers and actors) minimum

Staging:Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,45 pages ISBN: 9781780014326Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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