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:

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

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