Caryl Churchill
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Carl Churchill, also spelled as Caryl Churchill, was born in London, England, on September 3, 1938. Growing up, Churchill lived in both England and Canada and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, in 1960. While at Oxford, Churchill became vis mere interested in theatre and went on to write three plays while she was there. After graduation, Churchill spent the next ten years writing plays, including "Lovesick" and "Schreber's Nervous Illness," which were broadcast on the BBC. In 1974, Churchill began working for the Royal Court Theatre as a resident playwright and two years later she joined the Joint Stock Theatre Group, an organization that uses collective collaboration between actors, writers, and directors when creating theatrical works. Churchill has also written dozens of books over the years, among them Blue Heart, Cloud Nine, and Hotel: In a Room Anything Can Happen. Looked upon as a voice of post-modernism, Churchill is well known for her use of dramatic structure. (Bowker Author Biography) In the early 1980s, Churchill suddenly became one of the contemporary British dramatists best represented on New York stages, as three of her plays were produced in succession. Cloud Nine (1978), directed by Tommy Tune, held the stage for two years and won an Obie (as did Top Girls, 1982). In England Churchill's career has been less abrupt, a long migration among the characteristic outlets of the new drama. From 1961 to 1972, she wrote radio plays. Owners (1972) was her first stage work commissioned by the Royal Court, where she became resident dramatist in 1974, and which staged Objections to Sex and Violence in 1975. The following year Churchill began working with two of the important fringe theater companies. One company was Joint Stock for which she wrote Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, (1976), Cloud Nine, and Fen (1982). The other was a feminist group named Monstrous Regiment for which she wrote Vinegar Tom (1976), and contributions to the revue Floorshow. The Lucille Lortel Theatre (New York) production of Cloud Nine in 1981 ushered in the most recent, transatlantic phase of Churchill's career. New York's Public Theater, as well as London's Royal Court, staged versions of Top Girls in 1982. Churchill writes many different kinds of plays. Examples are Ortonesque, about the grotesques of Owners, historical as in versions of the seventeenth century in Light Shining, about the English Civil War, and Vinegar Tom, about witchcraft. She also writes expressionist (the cross-sexual casting and doubling in Cloud Nine), and formally experimental (the permutations of situation in her dramatic Mobius strip, Traps). She is increasingly feminist in outlook. But, if her demonstrations of sexual liberation are sometimes pat (as in the second half of Cloud Nine), her theatrical adventurousness is always invigorating. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Caryl Churchill
Churchill Plays 1: Owners + Traps + Vinegar Tom + Light shining in Buckinghamshire + Cloud nine (1985) 250 eksemplarer
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping & F***ing; The Beauty Queen... (Play… (2001) 46 eksemplarer
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five (Seven Jewish Children, Love and Information, Ding Dong the Wicked, Here We Go, Escaped… (2019) 7 eksemplarer
Here We Go [theatre programme] 1 eksemplar
Catro pezas. O setimo ceo. Mozas de primeira.lonxe.de serie: O sétimo ceo; Mozas de primeira; Lonxe; De serie: 6… (2010) 1 eksemplar
Lovesick 1 eksemplar
Abortive 1 eksemplar
Schreber's Nervous Illness 1 eksemplar
Io! (a Mouthful of Birds) 1 eksemplar
Plays by Caryl Churchill (Study Guide): Thyestes, Seven Jewish Children, a Number, Top Girls, Cloud Nine, Far Away, Mad… (2010) 1 eksemplar
Three More Sleepless Nights 1 eksemplar
Copies 1 eksemplar
Seagulls 1 eksemplar
The Judge's Wife 1 eksemplar
Tha ants 1 eksemplar
Hot Fudge 1 eksemplar
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution 1 eksemplar
Far Away 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Bidragyder — 178 eksemplarer
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Churchill, Caryl
- Fødselsdato
- 1938-09-03
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- England (birth)
UK - Land (til kort)
- UK
- Fødested
- London, England, UK
- Bopæl
- London, England (birth)
Montreal, Canada - Uddannelse
- Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
- Erhverv
- playwright
- Relationer
- Harter, David (spouse)
- Agent
- Mel Kenyon (Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd)
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