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:

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

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