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Shorts

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Description for Shorts Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.

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...

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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.

Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854590855
SKU
V9781854590855
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio. Her stage plays include: Owners (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court, 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock, 1976); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment, 1976); Traps (Royal Court, 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock, 1979); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho...
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Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio. Her stage plays include: Owners (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court, 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock, 1976); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment, 1976); Traps (Royal Court, 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock, 1979); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly and Royal Court, 1980); Top Girls (Royal Court, 1982); Fen (Joint Stock, 1983); Softcops (RSC, 1984); A Mouthful of Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock, 1986); Serious Money (Royal Court and Wyndham's, London, then Public Theater, New York, 1987); Icecream (Royal Court, 1989); Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama, then Royal Court, 1990); Lives of the Great Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1991); The Skriker (Royal National Theatre, 1994); Thyestes translated from Seneca (Royal Court, 1994); Hotel with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1997); This is a Chair (Royal Court, 1997); Blue Heart (Joint Stock, 1997); Far Away (Royal Court, 2000, and Albery, London, 2001, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002); A Number (Royal Court, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2004); A Dream Play after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre, 2005); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court, 2006, then Public Theater, New York, 2008); Bliss, translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court, 2008); Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza (Royal Court, 2009); Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012); Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012); Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015); Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016), Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016), Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. (Royal Court, 2019) and What If If Only (Royal Court, 2021).

Reviews for Shorts
'A dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing'
The Times

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