CARYL CHURCHILL   (1938 - )


Caryl Churchill
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Plays by Caryl Churchill

CARYL CHURCHILL
Abortive
1st Produced:
BBC Radio Three
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
Radio
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Roz and Colin talk about Roz's rape and subsequent abortion. They find that they are both ambivalent about it all.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
After-Dinner Joke, The
1st Produced:
BBC 1
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
TV
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
16
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
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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CARYL CHURCHILL
Ants, The
1st Produced:
BBC Third Programme
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Penguin New England Dramatists, London
-
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Genre:
Radio Play
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Written as a television play Caryl Churchill's agent persuaded her to have it produced on radio.
Synopsis: A boy sits on a terrace watching his friends the ants. His mother wants him to come and live with her; so does his grandfather. Somewhere there is a war going on and "we" have killed ten thousand of "them".
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Baron Sunday
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London
1986
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Bliss
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
2008
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
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.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Blue Heart
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
1997
Company:
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
Two 1 Acts
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: comprises Blue Kettle and Heart's Desire
Synopsis: Blue Heart consists of two related short plays in which nothing is what it seems
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Blue Kettle
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
1987
Company:
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
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.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Cloud Nine
1st Produced:
Dartington College of Arts, Devon
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: 1st published Pluto Press, London, 1979
Synopsis: A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. Set in both colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, and money.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Comic Strips From The Chinese
1st Produced:
Unproduced
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
15 scenes
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: not available for performance
Synopsis: Philosophy of Lieh-tzu and power struggles circa 600 BC.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Crimes
1st Produced:
BBC
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
TV
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
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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CARYL CHURCHILL
Dancing
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London
1986
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Downstairs
1st Produced:
Oxford
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Dream Play, A
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
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.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
Drama, 55 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Easy Death
1st Produced:
Oxford
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: partly in verse
Synopsis: Two plots on aspects of happiness combine in third act
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Eight Rooms
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
1997
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
14 characters
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Eleventh Hour
1st Produced:
-
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
TV
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
F E N
1st Produced:
Micra Film Production (Spain)
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Movie
Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
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.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Far Away
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
Royal Court production presented byAmbassador Theatre Group and Old Vic Productions
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Short Play, 50 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 child
Notes: -
Synopsis: At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. Far Away is a howl of anguish at the increasing  and increasingly accepted  levels of inhumanity in a world seemingly perpetually involved in conflict.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Fen
1st Produced:
University of Essex Theatre, Essex
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
1983
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
22 characters
Notes: -
Synopsis: Low paid women potato pickers as generations merge into one another.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Finsbury Fragment
1st Produced:
Unproduced
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Story Play
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: not available for performance
Synopsis: Lengthy story from the Anglo Saxon epic poem
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Floorshow
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Cabaret
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with others
Synopsis: Sketches and lyrics for cabaret about women and work
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Fugue
1st Produced:
Channel Four
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
TV
Dance Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
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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CARYL CHURCHILL
Gold Shoes
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London
1986
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Having A Wonderful Time
1st Produced:
Oxford
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
8 scenes
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Paul narrates tales from his holiday in France.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Heart's Desire
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
1987
Company:
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
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
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Henry's Pest
1st Produced:
BBC Radio Three
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Radio Play
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
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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CARYL CHURCHILL
Herculine Barbin
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London
1986
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Hospital At The Time Of The Revolution, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Hot Fudge
1st Produced:
reading at Royal Court, London
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: New York 1990
Synopsis: President Joni, the first woman to be elected to that office, is a politician with heart who wants to bring the issue of gay rights to her party's political platform. She wants to confront and change the laws that discriminate against her gay and lesbian constituents. . .. . . .the whole thing works, and reasonably well for the world premiere of this interesting play. . .. . . .you'll stay more than fascinated by the activity of the characters. . .. David Roberts, Theatre Reviews Limited
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Hot Summer
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "A Mouthful Of Birds" Methuen, London
1986
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Hotel, In A Room Anything Can Happen
1st Produced:
Second Stride, Schauspielhaus, Hannover
1997
Company:
Second Stride
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
Jazz Opera
Opera
Parts:
Male
6
Female
8
Parts Other:
2 pianists, 1 double bassist
Notes: An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough
Synopsis: Hotel is in two parts: In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people - tourists, couples and business people - spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement. In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Ice Cream
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5-8
Female
5-8
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists. 'The idea of Oregon, the word, just the word Oregon really thrills me'. 'You can't help loving England. The green fields. The accents. The pubs.' Set half in the UK and half in the US, Icecream 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 wish, their respective love affairs with each other's countries prove difficult to explain.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Identical Twins
1st Produced:
BBC Radio Three
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Radio Play
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Teddy and Clive are identical twins and have always been confused one for the other. Clive commits suicide and Teddy takes over Clive's lover, children and farm.
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Judge's Wife, The
1st Produced:
BBC 2
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
TV
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: "Thirty Minute Theatre" Season Eight programme 259. Directed by James Ferman
Synopsis:
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CARYL CHURCHILL
Legion Hall Bombing