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In 1987, Caryl Churchill — without doubt the best living playwright in Britain — premiered her...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Apr 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In 1987, Caryl Churchill — without doubt the best living playwright in Britain — premiered her...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Feb 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Caryl Churchill, Britain’s best living playwright, is enjoying a spate of high-profile revivals of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Feb 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Genetic engineering is in the news again. This follows the resignation of Andrew Sabisky as...
Read MorePosted by Diana Benea | 11th Jan 2020 | Interview, Romania, Theatre and Politics
In the past five months, Romanian-born award-winning playwright, poet, and scholar Saviana...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 26th Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Believe me when I tell you that there is much more to Alice Birch’s play [BLANK] than meets the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
At the age of 81, Caryl Churchill, Britain’s greatest living playwright, is still going strong....
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 29th Sep 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There is no denying that Cary Churchill is the greatest living British playwright. So, what you...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Sep 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The past can often hang like a nightmare on the present. And, in the case of Jewish identity, this...
Read MorePosted by Jane Baldwin | 4th Jul 2019 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom, United States of America
Caryl Churchill’s brilliant two act play about sex Cloud Nine transpires in two eras and two...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 10th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Written only as recently as 1981, Caryl Churchill’s modern classic Top Girls has already been on...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Caryl Churchill is a phenomenal artist. Not only has she written a huge body of work, but each...
Read MorePosted by Alvina Ruprecht | 8th Apr 2019 | Canada, Review
A talented young director brings order to Caryl Churchill’s purposely chaotic vision of the nature...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Mar 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Okay, let’s start with a definition: “Cougar: an older woman who actively seeks the casual, often...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2019 | Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom
There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...
Read MorePosted by Jane Baldwin | 26th Nov 2018 | Boston, Review, United States of America
The Boston Commonwealth Shakespeare Company began life as a summer program over twenty years ago...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Royal Court theatre, which proudly boast of being “a leading force in world theatre for...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 10th Apr 2018 | Essay, Immersive Theatre, India, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability
Rather than experimental theatre, it is the realm of dance works that is considered to be much...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Dec 2017 | Essay, London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Friday, May 7, 2010; Brixton, south London; darkest night. Early dawn touches a Victorian terraced...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
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