The Skriker
Paperback, 52 pages ISBN: 9781854592750Publication Date:
17 Feb 1994
Size: 196mm x 128mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
Ebook, 52 pages ISBN: 9781780013589Publication Date:
15 Oct 2014
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
First Staged:
National Theatre, London, 1994

The Skriker

By Caryl Churchill

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An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.

Caryl Churchill's play The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994.

The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

‘Long before that, long before England was an idea, a country of snow and wolves where trees sang and birds talked and people knew we mattered.’

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'Unwholesome, hypnotic and born in the dark... spellbinding'

Independent on Sunday
Paperback,52 pages ISBN: 9781854592750Publication Date:
17 Feb 1994
Size: 196mm x 128mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
Ebook,52 pages ISBN: 9781780013589Publication Date:
15 Oct 2014
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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