Churchill Plays: 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine Contributor(s): Churchill, Caryl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413566706 ISBN-13: 9780413566706 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Binding Type: Paperback Published: May 2009 Annotation: Caryl Churchill is "a dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing."-New Statesman Owners: "Starkly relevant."-Guardian Traps: "Churchill's most confident and creative deployment of stagecraft to date."-Plays and Players Vinegar Tom: "Speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of and to this century's still deep-rooted anti-feminism."-Tribune Light Shining in Buckinghamshire: "One of the finest pieces of English playwriting for years."-Plays and Players Cloud Nine: "Compassionate, witty, and economic."-Financial Times |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 822.914 |
LCCN: 85186277 |
Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.60 lbs) 336 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: 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 matches its subject. (The Guardian) Cloud Nine sheds light on some of the British Empire's repressed dark side and is a marvelous play - sometimes scurrilous, always observed with wicked accuracy, and ultimately, surprisingly, rather moving. It plunges straight to the heart of the endless convolutions of sexual mores...and does so with acrobatic wit. (Guardian) Owners: I was in an old woman's flat when a young man offering her money to move came round, that was one of the starting points of the play (Caryl Churchill). |
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