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:

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

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