Caryl Churchill

By:

Elaine Aston

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Writers and Their Work

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The volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill’s theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000). Making use of contemporary critical and feminist theory, the study offers close dramatic and theatrical readings of the plays highlighting Churchill’s concerns with feminism, socialism and theatrical style. A key chapter on ‘The Woman Writer’ examines those plays, including Cloud Nine and Top Girls, which brought Churchill to the attention of the international feminist theatre academy, and links Churchill’s emergent feminism to her personal struggle to combine a career in the theatre with motherhood. Detailing the international success of play such as Serious Money and Mad Forest, alongside some of the lesser known and lesser studied earlier work, this accessible account illustrates how Churchill has come to be recognised as one of the leading playwrights of our contemporary theatre.

Author Biography:

Elaine Aston is a Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Lancaster.

Release date Australia

July 1st, 2010

Author

Elaine Aston

Audiences

Further/Higher Education
General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Edition

3rd Revised edition

Pages

174

Series

Writers and Their Work

ISBN-13

9780746312087

Product ID

6705772

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