Churchill Plays: 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 1)

( In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their...)

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.

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

( "Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in h...)

"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 false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." -Steve Grant "The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." -The Guardian "A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." -Mel Gussow, New York Times An early masterwork by one of the world’s leading playwrights, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is an impressive exercise in historical drama, dealing with the rawness of life during England’s Civil War. It was first staged in 1976 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and revived at the National Theatre in 1996. Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

(Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set d...)

Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the legacy it left behind. In the aftermath of the Civil War, England stands at a crossroads. Food shortages, economic instability, and a corrupt political system threaten to plunge the country into darkness and despair. The Parliament men who fought against the tyranny of the King now argue for stability and compromise, but the people are hungry for change. For a brief moment, a group of rebels, preachers, soldiers and dissenters dare to imagine an age of hope, a new Jerusalem in which freedom will be restored to the land. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1976, the play was revived at the National Theatre in 1996 and again in 2015, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner.

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Caryl Churchill: Plays Vol. 1 - 'Owners', 'Traps', 'Vinegar Tom', 'Light Shining in Buckinghamshire' & 'Cloud Nine': "Owners"; "Traps"; "Vinegar Tom"; ... in Buckinghamshire"; "Cloud Nine" Vol 1 by Caryl Churchill (1985)

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NHB Modern Plays) by Caryl Churchill (16-Apr-2015) Paperback

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Paperback April 16, 2015

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Paperback - April 1, 1997

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Cloud 9

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Churchill Plays: 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 1)

( In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their...)

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.

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Cloud Nine (Acting Edition)

(Comedy / Casting: 4m, 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exterior...)

Comedy / Casting: 4m, 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors The time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies, plays and novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex. There is Clive, a British functionary, his wife Betty (played by a man), their daughter Victoria (a rag doll), Clive's friend Harry an explorer, Mrs. Saunders who runs about dressed in a riding habit, Clive's son Edward who still plays with dolls and is played by a woman and Joshua a native servant who knows exactly what is really going on. What really is going on is a marvelous send up and a non-stop round robin of sexual liaisons. All this time the natives are restless in the background. The second act shifts to London in 1980 except for the surviving characters it is only twenty five years later and all those repressed sexual longings have evaporated along with the Empire. "Intelligent, inventive and funny."-The New York Times "I really don't know when I've had more fun. It blends farce, pathos into a work of total theatre."-New York Daily News

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The After-Dinner Joke and Three More Sleepless Nights (Cambridge Literature)

(Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited...)

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. These two plays by Caryl Churchill are edited by Lib Taylor of the University of Reading.

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Top Girls

(Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints. Marl...)

Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints. Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co workers, clients and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor and even coaches female clients on adopting odious male traits. Marlene has also abandoned her illegitimate and dull witted daughter. Her emotional and sexual life has become as barren as Lady Macbeth's. "A blistering yet sympathetic look at women who achieve success by adopting the worse traits of self made men.... Truly original." N.Y. Times. "Very funny and provocative.... A mind lifting experience." N.Y. Post.

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Churchill Plays 2: Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 2)

( "Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music...)

"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" --The London Standard "Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert"--Sunday Times Fen scrutinizes the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy"--Financial Times Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius…the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place."--Daily Telegraph

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Churchill Plays 2: Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 2)

( "Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music...)

"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" --The London Standard "Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert"--Sunday Times Fen scrutinizes the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy"--Financial Times Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius…the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place."--Daily Telegraph

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A Mouthful of Birds (Methuen New Theatrescript)

(Against the backcloth of Euripides' The Bacchae, the most...)

Against the backcloth of Euripides' The Bacchae, the most darkly anarchic and sexually disturbing drama in Greek literature, Caryl Churchill, author of Top Girls (Royal Court, 1982) and David Lan, author of Flight (RSC, 1986), working with Joint Stock Theater Group, have created a contemporary play of startling intensity combining drama and dance.

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Churchill Plays: 3 (Collected Plays vol. 3) Icecream; Mad Forest; The Skriker; Thyestes; Lives of the Great Poisoners; A Mouthful of Birds: v. 3 by Caryl Churchill (10-Jul-1997) Paperback

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Plays: 3 (Icecream / Mad Forest / Thyestes / The Skriker / Lives of the Great Poisoners / A Mouthful of Birds) (v. 3) [Paperback] [2001] Caryl Churchill

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Churchill Plays 2: Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 2)

( "Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music...)

"Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" --The London Standard "Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert"--Sunday Times Fen scrutinizes the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy"--Financial Times Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius…the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place."--Daily Telegraph

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Serious Money (Student Editions)

( Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most provoca...)

Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most provocative play. It is a satirical study of the effects of the "Big Bang" boom of financial markets in the 1980s and how it gave rise to hectic, chaotic, high velocity work where human values are compromised for success and wealth. The dialogue of the play is largely overlapping with the ingenious rhyming couplets and singsong verse. It is so stylized that Churchill even includes a rhymed soliloquy and a rap number. Language in the play is coarse, there being a particular emphasis on scatological humour, and the tone is overwhelmingly angry. Churchill's characters are drawn razor sharp cartoonishly. The play's plot revolves around financial wheeler-dealers that were born into the boom and want to maximize profits above all else. The tone is contemporary, edgy, witty and has been viewed by some as massively offensive: it is a perfect example of one of Churchill's most hard-hitting works. 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.

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Mad Forest: A Play from Romania

( "Bristles with the intelligence and insight of a major ...)

"Bristles with the intelligence and insight of a major writer." -Financial Times "Brilliantly ... evoke[s] the mood of a country through snapshot images." -Guardian "An act of moral commitment as well as theatrical virtuosity." -London Sunday Times Mad Forest explores the reactions of ordinary people to confused events, focusing in particular on two families. What emerges is the dreadful damage done to people's lives by repression and the painful difficulties of lasting change. Caryl Churchill's play about the Romanian revolution was written after she, the director and a group of students from London's Central School of Speech and Drama went to Romania to work with acting students there. The play was first performed in 1990, only three months after their return. Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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Churchill Plays: 3 (Collected Plays vol. 3) Icecream; Mad Forest; The Skriker; Thyestes; Lives of the Great Poisoners; A Mouthful of Birds: v. 3 by Caryl Churchill (10-Jul-1997) Paperback

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The Skriker

( Premiered at the Royal National Theatre, this extraordi...)

Premiered at the Royal National Theatre, this extraordinary play by one of Britain’s leading playwrights combines English folk tales with modern urban life. In terms of its language alone, it is as exciting and challenging on the page as on the stage. The play follows the Skriker, “a shapeshifter and death portent, ancient and damaged”, in its search for love and revenge as it pursues two young women to London, changing its shape at every new encounter. Along with the Skriker come Rawheadandbloodybones, the Kelpie, the Green Lady, Black Dog and more, till the whole country is swarming with enticing and angry creatures that have burst from the underworld. Caryl Churchill has been hailed as a “dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing” The Times. She is the author of some twenty plays including CLOUD NINE, TOP GIRLS, SERIOUS MONEY and MAD FOREST, all seen and admired all over the world.

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Churchill Plays: 3 (Collected Plays vol. 3) Icecream; Mad Forest; The Skriker; Thyestes; Lives of the Great Poisoners; A Mouthful of Birds: v. 3 by Caryl Churchill (10-Jul-1997) Paperback

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Plays: 3 (Icecream / Mad Forest / Thyestes / The Skriker / Lives of the Great Poisoners / A Mouthful of Birds) (v. 3) [Paperback] [2001] Caryl Churchill

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The Skriker

(Caryl Churchill's The Skriker is an extraordinary collisi...)

Caryl Churchill's The Skriker is an extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England. This edition of the play was published alongside its revival at the 2015 Manchester International Festival. 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.

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Plays: ONE - Owners, Traps, Vinegar Tom, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud

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Serious Money: A City Comedy

(A dramatic comedy for 5 men and 3 women. This timely play...)

A dramatic comedy for 5 men and 3 women. This timely play by the acclaimed author of Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Fen, and Vinegar Tom was a hit in London, transferring from the Royal Court Theatre to the West End. Serious Money is a Jonsonian satire about capitalism running rampant and unchecked. All money corrupts and serious money corrupts absolutely in the play's world of shady financial deals, insider trading and get rich quick wheeler dealers of both sexes. Not only does the play capture almost every aspect of dirty dealing and money grubbing from London to Wall Street, but it does so in extremely ingenious rhymed couplets!

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Plays: 3 (Icecream / Mad Forest / Thyestes / The Skriker / Lives of the Great Poisoners / A Mouthful of Birds) (v. 3) [Paperback] [2001] Caryl Churchill

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The Skriker 1st TCG edition by Churchill, Caryl (1994) Paperback

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Cloud Nine (Acting Edition) [Paperback] [2010] Caryl Churchill

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Serious Money: A City Comedy

(A dramatic comedy for 5 men and 3 women. This timely play...)

A dramatic comedy for 5 men and 3 women. This timely play by the acclaimed author of Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Fen, and Vinegar Tom was a hit in London, transferring from the Royal Court Theatre to the West End. Serious Money is a Jonsonian satire about capitalism running rampant and unchecked. All money corrupts and serious money corrupts absolutely in the play's world of shady financial deals, insider trading and get rich quick wheeler dealers of both sexes. Not only does the play capture almost every aspect of dirty dealing and money grubbing from London to Wall Street, but it does so in extremely ingenious rhymed couplets!

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SOFTCOPS & FEN (Modern Plays)

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Caryl Churchill: Plays Two ("Softcops", "Top Girls", "Fen", and "Serious Money") by Caryl Churchill (8-Feb-1990) Paperback

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Caryl Churchill: Plays Two ("Softcops", "Top Girls", "Fen", and "Serious Money") by Churchill, Caryl (1990) Paperback

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Churchill Plays 2: Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money (Methuen World Dramatists Series) (Vol 2) [Paperback] [1990] 11th Ed. Caryl Churchill

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[(Churchill Plays: "Softcops"; "Top Girls"; "Fen"; "Serious Money" v.2)] [Author: Caryl Churchill] published on (January, 2003)

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Serious Money (Royal Court Writers) by Churchill Caryl (1988-05-27) Paperback

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Far Away

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