Caryl Churchill

Standard Name: Churchill, Caryl
Birth Name: Caryl Churchill
Married Name: Caryl Harter
CC , widely recognised as one of the top contemporary British dramatists, has written plays for radio, television, and the stage. Many of her plays are developed in workshop settings, in collaboration with theatre groups, composers, and choreographers. Her work often explores gender or class issues from a socialist-feminist perspective. Churchill is also noted for her innovative experiments with theatrical form through techniques such as the juxtaposition of historical and contemporary settings, cross-gender and cross-racial casting, overlapping dialogue, and absurdist word play. Her later plays have focused increasingly on language.

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Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Kane
This play recalls Racine 's version of the story in Phèdre, but actually refers to Racine's source, Seneca 's Phaedra (perhaps following in the footsteps of Caryl Churchill 's version of Seneca's Thyestes...
Fictionalization Isabella Bird
This intrepid female rider and climber entered debate in the 1980s over the aims and achievements of Western middle-class feminism as a character in Caryl Churchill 's play Top Girls.
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen in Association With the Royal Court Theatre.
prelims
Feminist criticism and...
Education Sarah Kane
At school, SK directed plays by Shakespeare , as well as Joan Littlewood 's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University (first class honours), and...

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