×


 x 

Shopping cart
Caryl Churchill - Churchill Plays: 1 - 9780413566706 - V9780413566706
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Churchill Plays: 1

€ 25.57
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Churchill Plays: 1 Paperback. Formerly part of the "World Dramatists" series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, "World Classics". Series: Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
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 witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of and to this century..." (Tribune); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is set during the Civil War and "unflinchingly shows the intolerance that was the obverse side of the demand for common justice. Deftly, it sketches in the kind of social conditions. that led to hunger for revolution...The play has an austere eloquence that precisely ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Series
Contemporary Dramatists
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413566706
SKU
V9780413566706
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill is an award-winning playwright, whose plays are renowned for their striking influence upon contemporary British theatre practices. Indicative of her enduring impression upon the theatrical landscape, Churchill has won Obie Awards for her widely celebrated plays Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987) and A Number (2002). Further cementing her reputation ... Read more

Reviews for Churchill Plays: 1
Cloud Nine ... ought now to be established as one of the great psycho-sexual comedies of the 20th century. Evening Standard Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine is the cleverist, drollest, most sexily experimental exercise in "compare and contrast" that British theatre has probably ever seen. Daily Telegraph This is the play that established Caryl Churchill as the most imaginatively daring of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Churchill Plays: 1


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!