n/a

n/a

BBC Radio Three

1971

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in Shorts, Nick Hern Books, London >>>

1990

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Radio

Play/Drama

1

1

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Notes: Radio play directed by John Tydeman.

Synopsis: Roz and Colin talk about Roz's rape and subsequent abortion. They find that they are both ambivalent about it all.

BBC 1

1978

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in Shorts, Nick Hern Books, London >>>

1990

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TV

Play/Drama

16

7

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Notes: "Play For Today" Season 8 programme 17. Directed by Colin Bucksey

Synopsis: Selby is a secretary at a big company. She moves to the charity division as she wishes to do good and ends up running the department. Her colleague wants to promote hard hitting, yet inoffensive publicity campaigns but these all get vetoed or scuppered by central or local governments. Selby goes to a country devastated by a hurricane and promptly gets kidnapped by guerrillas. The story is interspersed with short sketches: A thief steals money for charity and is angry when they wont accept it; a Sheik buys Marks and Spencer and local dignitaries enter a pie throwing contest.

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Television play

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Notes: Never made

Synopsis: An angel accompanies some people

BBC Third Programme

1962

-

Contained in: Radio Plays - New English Dramatists 12" published by Penguin Books

1968

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Radio Play

Play/Drama

3

1

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Notes: Written as a television play Caryl Churchill's agent persuaded her to have it produced on radio.

Synopsis: A boy, Tim, sits on a terrace watching his friends the ants. Tim and his mother Jane, are staying with her father, they are expecting Tim's father Stewart to visit them. They are to be divorced, Jane wants Tim to come and live with her; so does his father. Jane wants the ants destroyed she asks that if petrol is poured into their nest and set alight would that get rid of them. Tim is aghast he loves the ants. Stewart arrives and he and Jane go for a walk. Somewhere there is a war going on and "we" have killed ten thousand of "them". Jane and Stewart look as if they are being friendly to each other when they return but a big argument over who should have Tim blows up and Stewart leaves. The grandfather gets petrol and sets fire to the ant nest much to Tim's glee.

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in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London

1986

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Play/Drama

1

4

-

Notes: -

Synopsis:

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, EUR >>>

2008

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>

2008

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Translation

1

3

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Notes: Original Playwright - Olivier Choiniere

Synopsis: "From the other side, I'm looking at you. You're looking at me. We smile at each other." Welcome to Walmart. A cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines on a break. 'SEE YOU LATER, CELINE' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life, her adoring fans? And how is her story connected to the story of an unknown woman on the facing page? It's not. Until Caro intervenes. This wild and slippery fantasy from Quebecois writer Olivier Choiniere explores our insatiable appetite for private lives made public.

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

1997

Out of Joint Theatre Company

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1997

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Two 1 Acts

One Act

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Notes: "Blue Heart" is the overall title for a double bill of one act plays: "Blue Kettle" and "Heart's Desire"

Synopsis: Blue Heart consists of two related short plays in which nothing is what it seems

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

1987

Out of Joint Theatre Company, UK >>>

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1997

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One Act

2

6

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Notes: part of Blue Heart

Synopsis: Forty-year-old Derek is a con-man who sets out to convince a series of women that he is the son they gave up for adoption. But something catastrophic is happening which disrupts and destroys the very fabric of their world.

Dartington College of Arts, Devon

1979

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Play/Drama

6

7

-

Notes: 1st published Pluto Press, London, 1979

Synopsis: 1870 British Imperial Africa a hotbed of secrets and liaisons. Colonial Administrator, Clive tries to impose Victorian values on his family - he is appalled that his son wants to play with dolls and he expects his wife and servant to obey him. He discovers that Harry Bagley, the explorer, is gay and insists that he marries the governess although Clive does not know that she is a lesbian. It is the case that boys will be girls and girls will be boys with the casting. Betty, Clive's wife is played by a man; Edward his son is played by a woman; the black servant by a white actor and Victoria, the daughter, by a doll. Act two takes place in London in 1979 with characters from Act One who think it is only twenty-five years later. Apart from a little girl played by a man all characters are played by the right sex. Edward is gay and has a lover, Gerry. Victoria has a female admirer. Clive has died. Betty is being haunted by her younger self. "It is all passion and Throbbing bodices, heat and parasols and over the top dialogue and very, very funny." Lizzie Loveridge in "Curtain Up"

Unproduced

1968

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15 scenes

One Act

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Notes: not available for performance

Synopsis: Philosophy of Lieh-tzu and power struggles circa 600 BC.

BBC

1982

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TV

Play/Drama

6

2

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Notes: "Play For Tomorrow" Season One programme one. Directed by Stuart Burge

Synopsis: The future - 2002. Prisons are full to bursting. A leading criminal psychiatrist has taken home recordings of some of the sessions he has had with various prisoners and he watches them whilst his wife agitates about their forthcoming house move. The session he watches is with Jane, Ron and Elliot. Jane is a murderer and arsonist. She has had an electronic implant and this has turned her into a model prisoner. Ron is in prison because of his love of the countryside. City dwellers are only allowed into designated areas of the countryside - but Ron kept wandering off and getting arrested by police patrols. Eliot is on hunger strike but will not talk about himself. He tells the story of a neighbour arrested for not obeying the police. She had refused to go indoors when they, the police were beating up a suspect. Melvyn turns the recording off and his wife reminds him it is time to watch the Government programme "Select and Survive" which gives handy hints on bunker construction.

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in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London

1986

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Play/Drama

3

3

-

Notes: -

Synopsis:

Oxford

1958

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One act

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Susan tells her son Ted to end his relationship with Catherine, the girl who lives downstairs in their block of flats. Ted murders Catherine

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2005

National Theatre, London >>>

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Translation

5

5

with doubling, lrger cast possible

Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg. tr. Caryl Churchill, adap. Katie Mitchell and the company

Synopsis: Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream: A young woman comes from another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. As Strindberg wrote in his preface, he wanted 'to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.'. From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund. Introduction by Caryl Churchill.

Royal Court Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2006

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>

2006

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Drama, 55 min

Play/Drama

2

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Notes: In the American version Jack became Guy

Synopsis: Jack leaves his family in Britain and moves in with Sam in New York. Jack will do anything for Sam. But who is in control? Who wont show his true feelings? Are we watching Uncle Sam and Union Jack or George W and Tony Blair? "To the old sayings 'All's fair in love and war and 'Love is war' she [Churchill] now appends the query, is love war?" Les Gutman "Curtain Up" March 14th 2008

Oxford

1962

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Play/Drama

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-

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Notes: partly in verse

Synopsis: Two plots on aspects of happiness combine in third act

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Nick Hern Books, London

1997

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Play/Drama

-

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13 singers, 3 musicians, 2 dancers

Notes: Performed under the overall title: "The Hotel"

Synopsis:

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1975

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TV

Play/Drama

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-

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

Micra Film Production (Spain)

1980

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Movie

Drama

8

4

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Notes: Written with Avelino Hernández N?ñez. Directed by Antonio Hernández. In Spanish

Synopsis: Two former students of a strict religious school return to seek revenge on their teachers who had made their lives a misery.

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

2000

Royal Court production presented byAmbassador Theatre Group and Old Vic Productions

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

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Short Play, 50 min

One Act

1

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Joan has been sent to live with her aunt and uncle. Her aunt, Harper, looks in on her and finds she is awake. It slowly comes out that Joan has climbed out of her bedroom window and watched her uncle murdering people in the garden shed. Some years later Joan works for a hat maker she is friendly with co-worker Todd. The hats they make are elaborate ones worn by prisoners on their way to execution. Some years later and the World is at war. A war like no other even animals are involved and there are odd alliances and groupings - horses, French cats, Portuguese taxi-drivers, Latvian dentists. Todd is staying with Harper. Joan has escaped from the fighting and joined them. "Caryl Churchill's Far Away is a terrible play, the Yeatsian sense of terrible beauty." The Sunday Times

University of Essex Theatre, Essex

1983

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1983

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Play/Drama

-

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22 characters

Notes: -

Synopsis: A Japanese business is pleased at the purchase of land in East Anglia. Women labourers from a nearby village - bent double - pick potatoes and sing. Drifting back and forth through time the lives of women farm labourers are told. Val who has left her husband and daughters for another man. She yearns for her children but cannot leave Frank and decides that either herself or Frank must die to solve their problem. A ghost berates a farmer for selling the land she used to toil on. Is one of the workers an hermaphrodite? "Yet another confirmation that its author possess one of the boldest theatrical imaginations to emerge in this decade" Frank Rich "The New York Times" May 31st 1983

Unproduced and unavailable for performance

1961

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Adaptation

Play/Drama

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-

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Notes: Based on "Beowulf" and "The Finnsburg Fragment"

Synopsis: The Anglo-Saxon story of Finn, Hengest and Hildeburh

London

1977

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Cabaret

Sketch

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Notes: written with others

Synopsis: Sketches and lyrics for cabaret about women and work

Channel Four

1988

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TV

Dance Drama

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Notes: Part of the "Dancelines" series. Directed and choreographed by Ian Spink. Music Bach's "Contrapunctus 10" from "The Art of the Fugue"

Synopsis: The effects of death on a family

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in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London

1986

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Play/Drama

-

4

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

Questors Theatre, Ealing

1960

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8 scenes

One Act

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Paul narrates tales from his holiday in France.

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

1987

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1997

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One Act

2

4

children

Notes: part of Blue Heart

Synopsis: The long-anticipated return of a daughter from Australia by her parents and aunt is rehearsed over and over with different variations and outcomes - some comic, some brutal, some simply astonishing

BBC Radio Three

1972

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Radio Play

Play/Drama

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Notes: -

Synopsis: In the past Henry attacked and maimed Geoffrey. Geoffrey is now confined to a wheelchair and has married Henry's ex-wife.

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in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London

1986

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Play/Drama

1

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

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in Shorts, Nick Hern Books, London >>>

1990

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One Act

8

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Fanon is the head of the psychiatric wing of an Algerian hospital in 1956. His patients are mainly French torturers and their Algerian victims. A middle aged French couple bring their seventeen year old daughter to see him. The daughter has been refusing to eat and threw a cup of coffee at her mother.

reading at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London

1989

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1990

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