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| cloud nine caryl churchill: Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill, 1984 A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and lifestyle are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill, 1984 Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.The first act takes placei n Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes his ideals on his family and the natives. Betty, his wife, is played by a man because she wants to be what men want her to be; and Joshua, their black servant, is played by a white man because he wants to be what whites want him to be.The second act is set in London in 1979--in the changing sexuality of our own time. The characters, who have ages only twenty-five years, have become more real to themselves, men suffer as well as women, and our identities are warped by conforming to unnatural norms. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The Modern Monologue Michael Earley, Philippa Keil, 2013-09-27 The Modern Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is an exciting selection of speeches drawn from the landmark plays of the 20th century. The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre-- and the plays most constantly performed on stage throughout the world--are represented in this unique collection. Monologues of all types--both serious and comic, realistic and absurdist--provide a dynamic challenge for all actors: the student, the amateur and the professional. A fuller appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editors' introduction and commentaries that set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Plays Four Caryl Churchill, 2008 Includes a revival of her best-known play, Cloud Nine and a new translation, Bliss. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Serious Money Caryl Churchill, 2013-06-13 A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance Independent Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham's production, writing to say that This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated. This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Vinegar Tom Caryl Churchill, 1982 The play examines gender and power relationships through the lens of 17th-century witchcraft trials in England. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Traps Caryl Churchill, 1989 An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls. Like a painting by Escher 'where the objects can exist on paper, but would be impossible in life', Traps is a mindbending dramatic concoction in which the characters can be thought of as living all their possibilities at once. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The Theatre of Caryl Churchill R. Darren Gobert, 2014-09-25 The Theatre of Caryl Churchill documents and analyses the major plays and productions of one of Britain's greatest and most innovative playwrights. Drawing on hundreds of never-before-seen archival sources from the US and the UK, it provides an essential guide to Churchill's groundbreaking work for students and theatregoers. Each chapter illuminates connections across plays and explores major scripts alongside unpublished and unfinished projects. Each considers the rehearsal room, the stage, and the printed text. Each demonstrates how Churchill has pushed the boundaries of dramatic aesthetics while posing urgent political and theoretical questions. But since each maps Churchill's work in a different way, each deploys a different reading practice - for many approaches are necessary to characterise such a restlessly imaginative and prolific career. Through its five interlocking parts, The Theatre of Caryl Churchill tells a story about the playwright, her work, and its place in contemporary drama. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Plays Caryl Churchill, 1985 Cloud nine: Relationshiops-- between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria, and sex. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Blue Heart (Revised Tcg Edition) Caryl Churchill, 2017-10-10 A revised version of a remarkable work from renowned playwright Caryl Churchill. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The Skriker Caryl Churchill, 1994 The play follows the Skriker, ... in its search for love and revenge as it pursues two young women to London ...--Back cover. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016 A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Plays Caryl Churchill, Ian Spink, David Lan, 1998 Annotation Includes:Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Shriker, Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds, as well as an introduction by the author. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Top Girls Caryl Churchill, 2018-02-22 Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become a seminal play of the modern theatre. Set during a period of British politics dominated by the presence of the newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Churchill's play prompts us to question our notions of women's success and solidarity. Its sharp look at the society and politics of the 1980s is combined with a timeless examination of women's choices and restrictions regarding career and family. This new Student Edition features an introduction by Sophie Bush, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK prepared with the contemporary student in mind. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains: · A chronology of the play and the playwright's life and work · an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created · a succinct overview of the creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of the piece · an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text · a bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Churchill Shorts Caryl Churchill, 1990 Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens up a little-known aspect of her writing, and demonstrates her remarkable versatility and breadth of concern. Abortive (Radio 3, 1971) The After-Dinner Joke (BBC TV, 1978) The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution Hot Fudge (Royal Court Theatre, 1989) The Judge's Wife (BBC TV, 1972) Lovesick (Radio 3, 1967) Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen (Radio 3, 1971) Schreber's Nervous Illness (Radio 3, 1972) Seagulls Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly Theatre, 1980) The volume also includes an introduction by the author. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Cloud Nine Caryl Churchill, 1985 Written for Joint Stock, this theatre company's workshop for the play was sexual politics, thus giving Caryl Churchill the idea for her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression. Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London. Much interplay is made of gender and colour: for example, Clive, the white settler, has a black servant, Joshua, who is played by a white because he wants to be what the whites want him to be. Hilarious and thought-provoking. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond, 2009-12-10 Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Softcops Caryl Churchill, 1984 Using the memoirs of two notorious 19th century French criminals, explores the theme of law and order through incidents in their lives, and by examining the way that social institutions lead us to conform through discipline and punishment to accepted patterns of behaviour. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Far Away Caryl Churchill, 2000 |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Everybody Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 2018-06-18 This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Mad Forest Caryl Churchill, 1990 A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events. What emerges is the dreadful damage done to people's lives by repression and the painful difficulties of lasting change. Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest was written after she, the director Mark Wing-Davey and a group of students from London's Central School of Speech and Drama went to Romania to work with acting students there. The resulting play was first performed by students of CSSD in June 1990, only three months after their return from Romania. It was subsequently performed at the National Theatre, Bucharest, in September 1990, and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 1990. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Caryl Churchill, 1996 Light Shining in Buckinghamshire depicts the Diggers and Ranters during the English Civil War, and their last desperate burst of revolutionary feeling before the restoration. 'Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half-truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of the false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians' - Steve Grant |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Caryl Churchill, 2008 The newest play by Britain's brilliant Caryl Churchill. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Caryl Churchill Mary Luckhurst, 2014-11-27 One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write consistently hard-edged and innovative work. Always unpredictable in her stage experiments, her plays have stretched the relationships between form and content, actor and spectator to their limits. This new critical introduction to Churchill examines her political agendas, her collaborations with other practitioners, and looks at specific production histories of her plays. Churchill's work continues to have profound resonances with her audiences and this book explores her preoccupation with representing such phenomena as capitalism, genocide, environmental issues, identity, psychiatry and mental illness, parenting, violence and terrorism. It includes new interviews with actors and directors of her work, and gathers together source material from her wide-ranging career. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Essays on Caryl Churchill Sheila Mary Rabillard, 1998 |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The Plays of Caryl Churchill Amelia Howe Kritzer, 1991-08-04 This study focuses on themes and techniques of empowerment in the full range of produced plays by Caryl Churchill from 1960 to the present. The playwright is well known for combining theatrical inventiveness with uncompromising social critique. She is one of the very few contemporary women playwrights to have achieved international prominence, and she has done so on the basis of a forthright socialist-feminist stand. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Here We Go Caryl Churchill, 2020-02-05 In Here We Go, Churchill confronts the topic of aging and death, told in three separate sections. In the first part of the play, friends gather at a funeral and discuss, without much feeling, the passing of a friend. The second part is a monologue about the afterlife, and in the third section, a dying man is dressed and undressed by a loving caregiver. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Churchill Caryl Churchill, 1985-05-29 The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with Cloud Nine. The volume also contains a new introduction by the author as well as short prefaces to each play. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Churchill Plays: 1 Caryl Churchill, 2009-05-14 In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of and to this century... (Tribune); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is set during the Civil War and unflinchingly shows the intolerance that was the obverse side of the demand for common justice. Deftly, it sketches in the kind of social conditions.. that led to hunger for revolution...The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject. (The Guardian) Cloud Nine sheds light on some of the British Empire's repressed dark side and is a marvelous play - sometimes scurrilous, always observed with wicked accuracy, and ultimately, surprisingly, rather moving. It plunges straight to the heart of the endless convolutions of sexual mores...and does so with acrobatic wit. (Guardian) Owners:I was in an old woman's flat when a young man offering her money to move came round, that was one of the starting points of the play (Caryl Churchill). The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with Cloud Nine. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Fen Caryl Churchill, 1984 Val, Shirley, Nell, Alice and Angela work in Mrs Hassett's gang. Frank works on Mr Tewson's farm. Val leaves her family for Frank. A love story with moguls and boggarts. 'Fen' has been created through the Joint Stock method, with the writer working closely with the director and actors over a long period of workshops and rehearsals. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Black is the New White Nakkiah Lui, 2019-02-04 'Nakkiah Lui's writing is, as always, on point: hold-your-belly funny; pumping with politics that prompts visible discomfort.' Maxine Beneba Clark, Saturday Paper 'Her writing, whether devastating or hilarious, has always shown a great deal of accessible humanity and relentless intelligence.' Guardian 'We needed a new David Williamson, someone who speaks to Australia and Australians now. We've found her in Nakkiah.' Alex Broun, playwright 'Mount Druitt's answer to Lena Dunham.' Belvoir Theatre 'If there is such a thing as a rockstar playwright, Nakkiah Lui is it.' Fran Kelly, RN Love, politics and other things you shouldn't talk about at dinner Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer with a brilliant career ahead of her. As her father Ray says, she could be the next female Indigenous Waleed Aly. But she has other ideas. First of all, it's Christmas. Second of all, she's in love. The thing is, her fiance, Francis Smith, is not what her family expected - he's unemployed, he's an experimental composer ... and he's white! Bringing him and his conservative parents to meet her family on their ancestral land is a bold move. Will he stand up to the scrutiny? Or will this romance descend into farce? Love is never just black and white. It's complicated by class, politics, ambition, and too much wine over dinner. But for Charlotte and Francis, it's mostly complicated by family. Secrets are revealed, prejudices outed and old rivalries get sorted through. What can't be solved through diplomacy can surely be solved by a good old-fashioned dance-off. They're just that kind of family. Award-winning writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country's most in-demand young voices, delivering cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Caryl Churchill Elaine Aston, 2010-07 First published in 1997. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Seven Jewish Children Caryl Churchill, 2009 Seven Jewish children is Caryl Churchill's response to the situation in Gaza in January 2009, when the play was written.--p. [8]. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The National Theatre School Presents, Cloud Nine, Text by Caryl Churchill, Directed by Alisa Palmer , 2018 |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Taking Stock Max Stafford-Clark, Philip Roberts, 2007 Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than thirty years. Taking Stock draws on diaries, photos and interviews to recreate the evolution of nine of his most famous and influential productions: Fanshen by David Hare Epsom Downs by Howard Brenton Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill Rita, Sue and Bob Too by Andrea Dunbar Serious Money by Caryl Churchill Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill Macbeth by William Shakespeare The result is one of the richest, most intimately informative books on the making of theatre. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Escaped Alone Caryl Churchill, 2020-02-05 I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I've seen before. Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James MacDonald. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Hotel Caryl Churchill, 1997 A new piece, commissioned by the innovative music/dance/theatre group Second Stride, which shows eighteen characters simultaneously experiencing one night in the same hotel. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: Feminism and Theatre Sue-Ellen Case, 2014-09-03 This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. |
| cloud nine caryl churchill: The Death of the Playwright? Adrian Page, 1992-02-24 The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama. In addressing the questions of power, subjectivity, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and the nature of the dramatic text, the contributors reveal how much modern drama can be re-read to discover its radically subversive characteristics. Their conclusions challenge accepted interpretations and suggest major revisions of the processes of understanding and staging drama. |
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