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A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war.

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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.

The greatest living English-language playwright and, in my opinion, the most important English-language playwright since Williams.--Tony Kushner

It's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Magge Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate - she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be. A bold,...

At a restaurant party thrown by Marlene of the Top Girls Employment Agency are Isabella Bird, the 19th-century traveller, Lady Nijo, courtesan to a 13th-century Japanese Emperor, Brueghel's Dull Gret, Pope Joan and Patient Griselda, wife of Chaucer's Clerk.

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...

A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.

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.

Caryl Churchill is recognized as one of the most accomplished and uncompromising playwrights working today. This volume collects together ten of her shorter plays, written over a span of 20 years and encompassing a wide variety of subjects.

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 ...

An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England, published alongside its revival at the 2015 Manchester International Festival

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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.

The newest play by Britain's brilliant Caryl Churchill.

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Newest work by one of Britain's most influential playwrights.

This student guide contains commentary and notes, as well as the text of the play.