num_pages: 88
description: In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, homosexuals—and still finds time for an affair with a widowed neighbor. The same family appears in Act Two 25 years older and back in London, only now it’s 1979. Cloud 9 is about relationships between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria, and Sex. Cloud 9 premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979 and has since been staged all over the world.
language: English
title: Cloud 9
titlecomplete: Cloud 9
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, LGBT, British Literature, College, Plays, School, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 7974
places: Africa, London, England
publisher: Theatre Communications Group