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Top Girls - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary & Notes
0 Male, 7 Female
Marlene hosts a dinner part in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of Top Girls employment agency Her guests are five women from the past - Isabella Bird (1831-1904), the…
Blue Heart - Two One-act Plays - Blue Kettle & Heart’s Desire
Two related short plays, both teasingly entertaining and brilliantly executed by one of Britain's leading playwrights Heart’s Desire is about a father and daughter, and Blue Kettle is about a mother and…
The Skriker
6 Male, 9 Female
It 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…
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
2 Male, 0 Female
A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam '.. . startling... Having dealt in the past with the politics of sex, Churchill puts the…
Caryl Churchill Plays 3 - Icecream & Mad Forest & Thyestes & The Striker & Lives of the Great Poisoners & A Mouthful of Birds (with David Lan)
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,…
Churchill Plays 2 - Soft Cops & Top Girls & Fen & Serious Money
Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow “theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun” ~ TLS Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great…
Caryl Churchill Plays 4 - Hotel & This is a Chair & Blue Heart & Far Away & A Number & Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? & A Dream Play
This fourth volume of the collected plays written over a period of ten years and evincing an extraordinary range of topics and techniques, confirms Churchill’s standing as a playwright who is ‘amongst…
Churchill Plays 1 - Owners & Traps & Vinegar Tom & Light Shining in Buckinghamshire & Cloud Nine
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…
This Is a Chair
Churchill “has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life” ~ Guardian “Puts one in mid of the painter Magritte…Each…
Hotel
A two-part jazz opera, words by Caryl Churchill, music by Orlando Gough. In the first part, entitled Eight Rooms, fourteen people spend a night in a hotel But they all occupy the same space, their stories…
Thyestes
“Churchill has written a bleakly eloquent new translation of Seneca’s Roman tragedy ... Atreus, Agamemnon’s father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes’…
Serious Money - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary & Notes
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…
Far Away
‘The most “finger-on-the-theatrical-pulse combination” of director Stephen Daldry and Caryl Churchill were expected to produce something explosive in Far Away, but ... they have…
Ice Cream & Hot Fudge
Large Mixed Cast Male, 9 Female
Americans James and Vera travel to England to find James’s relatives. They locate third cousins who are decidedly low life and become entangled in a murder, the ramifications of which follow them…
Icecream & Hot Fudge
7 Male, 6 Female
Two plays by Carol Churchill in one volume which played in NY as a double bill. In ‘Icecream’, an American couple come to England to trace their geneaology only to find that their relatives…
Serious Money
5 Male, 3 Female
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…
Cloud Nine
4 Male, 3 Female
Churchill uses wit & humour to explore the inter-relationship of sexual and colonial oppression. Setting Act 1 in Victorian Africa, and Act 11 in modern London, she playfully subverts and challenges…
Icecream
3 Male, 3 Female
Set half in the UK and half in the US, this 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…
Vinegar Tom
2 Male, 7 Female
Although Vinegar Tom is set in the 16th or 17th century in rural England, it has a contemporary feel and may be staged very simply It tells the story of two farm women who are named as witches by a man…
A Number
2 Male, 0 Female
Caryl Churchill tackles human cloning in her latest play ... “Part psychological thriller, part topical scientific speculation, and part analysis of the relationship between fathers and their sons,…
Serious Money
Large Mixed Cast Male, 6 Female
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,…
Fen
1 Male, 6 Female
This remarkable playwright shows still another aspect of her talent in Fen, which takes place in England’s fen country and focuses on a gang of women landworkers. The play looks at their work situation…
Top Girls
0 Male, 7 Female
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…
Mad Forest - A Play from Romania
Large Mixed Cast
This play on the Romanian revolution was written after Churchill went to Romania to work with acting students there and discover more about the events following the fall of Ceasescu But far from being…
