Caryl Churchill

Author : Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139825344

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The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill by Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond Pdf

Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation – her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134281930

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Caryl Churchill by Mary Luckhurst Pdf

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.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0573619158

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Fen by Caryl Churchill Pdf

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.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350028593

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Top Girls by Caryl Churchill Pdf

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.

Author : Sheila Mary Rabillard
Publisher : Blizzard Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028996234

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Essays on Caryl Churchill by Sheila Mary Rabillard Pdf

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527554672

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Churchill’s Socialism by Siân Adiseshiah Pdf

Although now celebrated as a world-leading playwright, Caryl Churchill has received little attention for her socialism, which has been frequently overlooked in favour of emphasising gendered identities and postmodernist themes. Churchill’s Socialism examines eight of Churchill’s plays with reference to socialist theories and political movements. This well-researched and dynamic new book reframes Churchill’s work, positioning her plays within socialist discourses, and producing persuasive political readings of her drama that reflect much more of the political challenge that the plays pose. It additionally explores her uneasy relationship with postmodernism, which presents itself particularly in Churchill’s later plays. The book contains a very helpful chapter on socialist contexts, which outlines some of the key events, debates, and movements during the late 1960s up until the early 2000s. This chapter also offers an incisive critique of the easy acceptance by some socialists of a postmodernist rejection of grand narratives and political agency. An in depth examination of the rarely explored interconnections of utopianism and theatre, forms another chapter, where all eight of Churchill’s plays, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Vinegar Tom, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Mad Forest, The Skriker, and Far Away, are introduced. The plays are then discussed in pairs in a further four chapters with reference to communist historiography, the class/gender intersection, the end-of-history thesis, ecocritical challenges and postmodernism.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415901352

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Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill Pdf

A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and "lifestyle" are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt.

Author : Phyllis R. Randall
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015309423

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Caryl Churchill by Phyllis R. Randall Pdf

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131619970

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Plays Four by Caryl Churchill Pdf

Includes a revival of her best-known play, "Cloud Nine" and a new translation, "Bliss".

Author : Elaine Aston,Janelle Reinelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521595339

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights by Elaine Aston,Janelle Reinelt Pdf

This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184842499X

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The Skriker by Caryl Churchill Pdf

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. The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994. It was revived at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2015, as part of the Manchester International Festival, starring Maxine Peake, directed by Sarah Frankcom and featuring specially commissioned music by Nico Muhly and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559364408

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Love and Information by Caryl Churchill Pdf

"Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing? a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting."?Benedict Nightingale From Love and Information: SEX What sex evolved to do is get information from two sets of genes so you get offspring that's not identical to you. Otherwise you just keep getting the same thing over and over again like hydra or starfish. So sex essentially is information. You dont think that while we're doing it do you? It doesn't hurt to know it. Information and also love. If you're lucky. In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than one hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Declared "the greatest living English playwright" by Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill will premiere this latest work at London's Royal Court in fall 2012. Caryl Churchill is one of the most influential playwrights of our time. She is the author of more than twenty plays, including Seven Jewish Children, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Top Girls, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Cloud Nine, and Serious Money.

Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780746312087

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Caryl Churchill by Elaine Aston Pdf

First published in 1997.

Author : Alicia Tycer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441158291

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Caryl Churchill's Top Girls by Alicia Tycer Pdf

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.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410345684

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A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Far Away" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Far Away," 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.