The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Cambridge companions to authors
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10 Dec 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780521493222
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Caryl Churchill
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on Caryl Churchill; title: On feminist and sexual politics; title: On owning and owing : Caryl Churchill and the nightmare of capital; title: On the challenge of revolution; title: On text and dance : new questions and new forms; title: On Caryl Churchill's ecological drama : right to poison the wasps?; title: On performance and selfhood in Caryl Churchill; title: On Churchill and terror; title: On collaboration : "not ordinary, not safe"; title: On Churchill's influences.