Caryl Churchill
Herstory Repeats Itself with Caryl Churchill’s Classic Top Girls
When we think of the British playwrights we’re most familiar with, one is a political conservative for the thinking classes (Sir Tom Stoppard), another a safe middlebrow socialist for the carriage trade (Sir David Hare), and another a working-class sentimentalist for Off Broadway (the un-knighted Mike Leigh).
Where does that leave Caryl Churchill—the unrepentant Marxist-feminist poet who’s for nothing less than social, political and theatrical revolution? In my view, she’s England’s greatest living playwright. read more »
Caryl Churchill’s 45-Minute Screed on Bush and Blair; Remembering the Great Paul Scofield
You might want to think twice about seeing Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? at the Public Theatre. The radical politics of the distinguished feminist playwright aren’t giving me pause; it’s the $50 tickets that trouble me.
I’m no mathematician, but by my reckoning, $50 for an evening lasting 45 minutes amounts to $3,852 a minute. If you ask me—and please do—that’s outrageous. It’s a lot. Facts don’t lie. read more »
Fifty Stunning Minutes Of Universal Chaos
What Ith Happineth? Happineth Ith Blue Blue Kettle
