Churchill Plays 1: Owners / Traps / Vinegar Tom / Light Shining in Buckinghamshire / Cloud Nine: v.1 - Brossura

Churchill, Caryl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0413566706 ISBN 13: 9780413566706

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 1985

Riassunto

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).
The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with Cloud Nine.

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Book by Churchill Caryl

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0413566706
• ISBN 13: 9780413566706
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320