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| cloud 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 caryl churchill: Plays Four Caryl Churchill, 2008 Includes a revival of her best-known play, Cloud Nine and a new translation, Bliss. |
| cloud 9 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 9 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 9 caryl churchill: Ice Cream with Hot Fudge Caryl Churchill, 1990 Two plays which can be performed either separately or as a double-bill. |
| cloud 9 caryl churchill: What If If Only Caryl Churchill, 2021-09-30 Your partner's died, could things have been different? This edition also includes the resonant and surreal short piece, Air. |
| cloud 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 caryl churchill: The Modern Monologue : Men Michael Earley, Philippa Keil, 1993 First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| cloud 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 caryl churchill: Far Away Caryl Churchill, 2000 |
| cloud 9 caryl churchill: Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Caryl Churchill, 2008 The newest play by Britain's brilliant Caryl Churchill. |
| cloud 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 caryl churchill: Plays by American Women, 1900-1930 Judith E. Barlow, 2001 Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life |
| cloud 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 caryl churchill: Icecream Caryl Churchill, 1989 An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists. 'The idea of Oregon, the word, just the word Oregon really thrills me'. 'You can't help loving England. The green fields. The accents. The pubs.' Set half in the UK and half in the US, Caryl Churchill's play Icecream tells the story of two couples - an American man and wife and an English brother and sister. Implicated in each other's lives more than any of them would wish, their respective love affairs with each other's countries prove difficult to explain. Icecream was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1989. |
| cloud 9 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 9 caryl churchill: Fefu and Her Friends Maria Irene Fornes, 2016-04-27 One of Off-Broadway's best-loved plays, originally directed by the author. The audience follows the lives of eight women. For this play, Maria Irene Fornes received one of her nine Obie awards. A wonderful, important play. Susan Sontag Fornes is America's truest poet of the theater. Erika Munk An extraordinary play of uncommon insight and wit. Los Angeles Herald Examiner One of the most powerful plays written about the mysteries and shared hallucinations of the female experience. L A Weekly Though written in 1977, the message of FEFU AND HER FRIENDS remains ever the same: women don't know what to do with feminism. Or rather, they don't know what to do with themselves. It's a strange, unsettling play, not least because the strong women characters are at a loss with each other and with themselves. Without a man to center around, they disintegrate into cattiness and then madness. Fefu is probably deranged to begin with. She 'pretends' to shoot her husband with a gun that may or may not be loaded. She likes men better than women and in fact finds women 'loathsome.' Fefu and her friends are a group of society women, circa 1935. They're bored and affected in the manner of wealthy women who have too much free time. The play begins with plans for a charity benefit being planned at Fefu's New England estate. During the second part, four different scenes play simultaneously in four different rooms. The audience is led around to each in no particular order. In the final act, the women turn giggly, then bitchy, and then everything takes a tragic turn. Though not a realistic play neither is it strictly allegorical...at the heart of the play [is] 'a provocative statement about women to this day.' Fornes's self-loathing, self-doubting women only gradually come to understand the glossy surface and the dark underbelly that is the dual reality of their lives. It's thought-provoking but challenging, not for those who enjoy escapism in their theatre. Jenny Sandman, CurtainUp |
| cloud 9 caryl churchill: After Brecht Janelle G. Reinelt, 1994 How contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht |
| cloud 9 caryl churchill: Strategies of Political Theatre Michael Patterson, 2006-11-02 Michael Patterson analyzes a group of twentieth century British playwrights' respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for radical restructuring of society. He examines plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffith, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, David Hare, John McGrath and Caryl Churchill. Each chapter is devoted to an exploration of the engagement of individual playwrights with left-wing political theatre, including a detailed analysis of one of their major plays. |
| cloud 9 caryl churchill: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls Alicia Tycer, 2011-11-01 Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the dramatic canon. Top Girls is one of Churchill's most well known and often studied works, using an all female cast to critique bourgeois feminism during the Thatcher era. |
| cloud 9 caryl churchill: Caryl Churchill Plays: Five Caryl Churchill, 2019-03-08 In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction by the author, this volume contains: Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2009): a short play about seven families wondering how to protect their children, written at the time of the bombing of Gaza by Israel in 2008-9. Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012): a fast-moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012): two families on opposite sides of a war, locked in identical hatred. Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015): a play about dying and being dead. Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016): three old friends and an unexpected neighbour have tea in a sunny back yard, and face catastrophes. Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016): a look at how colonialism crushed the fluidity of sexuality in Africa and brought a new intolerance, as shown in the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. Also included are three previously unpublished short plays, each written in response to political events: War and Peace Gaza Piece (2014), Tickets are Now On Sale (2015) and Beautiful Eyes (2017). 'The wit, invention and structural ingenuity of Churchill's work are remarkable... she never does anything twice' Telegraph 'What is extraordinary about Churchill is her capacity as a dramatist to go on reinventing the wheel' Guardian |
| cloud 9 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 9 caryl churchill: An Actress Prepares Rosemary Malague, 2013-06-17 'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?' An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses the Method not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insider's view of a trained actor. Case studies examine the preeminent American teachers who popularized and transformed elements of Stanislavsky’s System within the U.S.—Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen— by analyzing and comparing their related but distinctly different approaches. This book confronts the sexism that still exists in actor training and exposes the gender biases embedded within the Method itself. Its in-depth examination of these Stanislavskian techniques seeks to reclaim Method acting from its patriarchal practices and to empower women who act. 'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.' – Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter 'Theatre people of any gender will be transformed by Rose Malague’s eye-opening study An Actress Prepares... This book will be useful to all scholars and practitioners determined to make gender equity central to how they hone their craft and their thinking.' – Jill Dolan, Princeton University |
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