Royal Court Theatre

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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's immensely controversial ten-minute work Seven Jewish Children—a Play for Gaza premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London, causing a furore which spread globally over the next few months.
Churchill, Caryl. “Read Caryl Churchillapos;s Seven Jewish Children”. guardia.co.uk.
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
A play by CC entitled Love and Information opened at the Royal Court Theatre for a five-week run; it was published the same year.
de Angelis, April. “Caryl Churchill: changing the language of theatre”. Guardian.co.uk.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's short play Escaped Alone, with its extraordinary cast of four ordinary women, all but one aged seventy or older, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London for a run of two...
Occupation Caryl Churchill
This began a long association with the Royal Court Theatre , during which several of her plays were produced there during the 1980s and 1990s.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Gale Research.
19: 89-90
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
The play was commissioned by Michael Codron , an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter and Joe Orton .
Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan.
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The production marks the beginning of CC 's long association with the Royal Court
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's next play staged at the Royal Court , a science fiction work titled Moving Clocks Go Slow, received only a one-night performance at the small Upstairs theatre in June 1975.
Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan.
67
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Its London run at the Royal Court Theatre began three weeks later.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
109
A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.
Occupation Caryl Churchill
CC was resident dramatist and tutor for the Young Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She was the first woman to hold this position.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Caryl Churchill
In this production CC continued her longtime collaboration with director Max Stafford-Clark , who had worked on several of her Joint Stock and Royal Court plays.
Churchill, Caryl. Blue Heart. Theatre Communications Group.
prelims
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Owners, CC 's first stage play in several years, opened in London at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
108
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Other projects from the 1990s include Lives of the Great Poisoners (1991) and Hotel (1997), both co-written with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink for Second Stride theatre company; a translation of Seneca 's...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Objections to Sex and Violence, a play by CC , opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
109
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
In April 2003 CC participated in a series of events at the Royal Court entitled War Correspondence. She composed her documentary piece Iraqdoc, out of actual remarks from a website chatroom frequented by...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's play Traps (written, this time, without the collaboration of a theatre group) was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
110
Churchill, Caryl. Traps. Pluto Press.
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Employer Sarah Daniels
SD became an associate writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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