Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival.
Caryl Churchill’s plays include: Owners, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven Jewish Children, Love & Information, Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Music theatre includes Lives of the Great Poisoners and Hotel, both with Orlando Gough. Caryl has also written for radio and television.
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Lovesick
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaLovesick
Short Play, Drama / 2w, 4m
Originally written for radio, this incisive piece about love as sickness is effective when staged with minimal scenery. A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives. While treating Ellen for loving a homosexual man, the the…
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Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaNot Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Short Play, Drama / 1w, 2m
People live in one room cellblocks in the London of 2010. Vivian, who is married to somebody else, wants to move in with Mick, a man old enough to remember when it was safe to walk around in London, when there were still birds and when you could procreate without a license. Mick yearns for a cottage…
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Seagulls
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaSeagulls
Short Play, Drama / 2w, 1m
A department store clerk has recently become famous for her telekinetic powers after nabbing a shoplifter by willing the item he stole right up out of his bag. On her way to Harvard for scientific testing, her powers desert her. Is this the result of meeting an odd fan? Perhaps her awareness that no…
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Abortive
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaAbortive
Short Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
Roz and Colin are having a difficult time with sex, largely because of an invisible yet forbidding barrier between them. Roz became pregnant after being raped and had an abortion. Roz is not sure she made the right decision and Colin is not altogether convinced his wife was raped. …
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Lovesick
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaLovesick
Short Play, Drama / 2w, 4m
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Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaNot Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Short Play, Drama / 1w, 2m
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Seagulls
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaSeagulls
Short Play, Drama / 2w, 1m
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Abortive
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaAbortive
Short Play, Drama / 1w, 1m