Nick Hern Books, 1998

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 33, Roles: Total (12), Female (6), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...A Mouthful of Birds is a collaboratively written theatre piece by Caryl Churchill and David Lan, combining text and dance to explore the nature of madness, possession and violence. It was inspired by Euripides’ Bacchae. The play was first...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (4), Female (0), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill’s A Number is set in a world in which human cloning is a reality. It explores the ethics of cloning, the fragility of personal identity and the conflicting claims of nature and nurture. It was first performed at the Royal...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Abortive is a short radio play first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 4 February 1971. Roz and Colin are having a difficult time with sex, largely because of an invisible yet forbidding barrier between them...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Scenes: 3

...Caryl Churchill's play Air is a resonant and surreal short piece written during 2019. It was first performed as part of The Lockdown Plays in May 2020, produced online by Tom Mothersdale, Wilf Scolding and Anoushka Warden. It was performed...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Beautiful Eyes is a short play about a family divided by politics. It was first performed in the week of Donald Trump's inauguration as US President, as part of Top Trumps at Theatre503, London, on 19 January 2017...

Nick Hern Books, 1997

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (18), Female (10), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Blue Heart consists of two related short plays, Heart's Desire and Blue Kettle, both examining strained family – and especially filial – relationships. It was first performed at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, on 14 August...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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...Caryl Churchill's Bluebeard’s Friends is a short play about society’s responses to atrocity. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, on 18 September 2019 as part of Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., a programme...

Methuen Drama, 1985

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (16), Female (10), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Churchill’s wickedly comic and compassionate study of sexual politics glimpses the relationships of a family and their lovers, with an interval of twenty-five years of their lives, and around a hundred years of history...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (6), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Ding Dong the Wicked is a short play that was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, on 1 October 2012. It was presented alongside Churchill's full-length play, Love and Information, which...

Nick Hern Books, 2006

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? is a play that examines US foreign policy and international power politics since the mid-twentieth century through the lens of a gay relationship. It was first performed at the Royal Court...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (4), Female (4), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone is a play that combines neighbourly chit-chat with visions of apocalyptic horror. It was first performed in the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, on 21 January 2016. The play's...

Nick Hern Books, 2000

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Far Away is a play that looks at conflict and its unsettling effect on our lives, and on our humanity. It was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, on 24 November 2000...

Methuen Drama, 1990

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (22), Female (16), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Against the flat, bleak landscape of the Fenlands, men and women are cramped into bitterness by grinding labour and economic oppression. Fen is composed of brief, fiercely resonant scenes, carving...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (3)

...Caryl Churchill's Glass is a short play about a girl made of glass. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, on 18 September 2019 as part of Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., a programme of four plays by Churchill...

Nick Hern Books, 2015

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Here We Go is a short play about death, first performed in the Lyttelton auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 27 November 2015 (previews from 25 November). The play is in three parts. The first...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Hot Fudge was written as a short companion piece to Icecream, her play exploring Anglo-American relations in the late 1980s, first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 6 April 1989. Hot Fudge was first staged...

Nick Hern Books, 1997

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (13), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (8)

...Hotel is multidisciplinary performance piece with a libretto by Caryl Churchill, music composed by Orlando Gough and choreography by Ian Spink. It was first staged in a production by Second Stride at the Schauspielhaus Hannover, Germany...

Nick Hern Books, 1998

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's play Icecream, set in the late 1980s, is an unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice-versa. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 6 April 1989. The first act...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Caryl Churchill's Imp is a short play about the power of stories, belief and superstition. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, on 18 September 2019 as part of Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., a programme...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

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Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (2)

...Caryl Churchill's Kill is a short play about perpetuating cycles of violence. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, on 18 September 2019 as part of Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., a programme of four plays...