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Author: Caryl Churchill
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using the memoirs of two notorious 19th century French criminals, explores the theme of law and order through incidents in their lives, and by examining the way that social institutions lead us to conform through discipline and punishment to accepted patterns of behaviour.
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780472084081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0746312083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1997.
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1139825348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation – her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-12-30
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1408177501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert" (Sunday Times); Fen scrutinises the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy" (Financial Times) while Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius...the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place." (Daily Telegraph)
Author: Linda Fitzsimmons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 140814915X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a study of the work of Caryl Churchill who wrote "Fen", "Top Girls" and "Serious Money". Linda Fitzsimmons examines the development of Churchill's powerful style from her earliest work to the major plays.
Author: Adrian Page
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1992-02-24
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1349219061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama. In addressing the questions of power, subjectivity, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and the nature of the dramatic text, the contributors reveal how much modern drama can be re-read to discover its radically subversive characteristics. Their conclusions challenge accepted interpretations and suggest major revisions of the processes of understanding and staging drama.
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher:
Published: 2013
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First presented in 1984 at the Barbican Pit, London, 'Softcops' gives a strange, amusing, powerful life to the history of punishment. In a surreal, part-comic part-profound drama of ideas, Churchill renders Michel Foucault's 'Discipline and Punish' into an intelligent, entertaining play about state control.
