Plays
Subtitle: three
By: Caryl Churchill ; introduced by the author.
Contributors: Lan, David, 1952-; Gough, Orlando; Spink, Ian; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 55 B.C.-ca. 39 A.D.; Churchill, Caryl; Churchill, Caryl; Churchill, Caryl
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Other titles: Plays : 3
Description: "Includes Icecream, an unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa; Mad Forest, Churchill's response to the Romanian Revolution; Thyestes, 'a bleakly eloquent new translation of Seneca's Roman tragedy' ...; and The Skriker, a 'spell-binding' piece combining English folk tales with modern urban life ... . Also included are two collaborative pieces combining word and dance: A Mouthful of Birds, written with David Lan, and Lives of the Great Poisoners, a libretto to music by Orlando Gough and choreography by Ian Spink."--Cover p. [4].
Table of contents: title: A mouthful of birds / co-author: David Lan; title: Icecream; title: Mad forest; title: Lives of the great poisoners / co-authors: Orlando Gough and Ian Spink; title: The skriker; title: Thyestes / translated from Seneca.