Caryl Churchill

Blue Heart (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.

Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it keeps veering off in unexpected and ridiculous directions.

Blue Kettle tells the story of conman Derek and the five women he misleads into believing he is their biological son. Try as he might, Derek's plans are scuppered as the play is invaded by a virus.

In Caryl Churchill's ever-inventive style, the two plays in Blue Heart pull apart language and structure in a way that is theatrically remarkable and fast paced, in a stirring yet truthful exploration of family and relationships.

This edition was published alongside the first major revival of Blue Heart, nearly twenty years after its Royal Court premiere, in a co-production by the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, and Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol, in 2016.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780011639
• Artikelnr.: 41825138

Autorenporträt

Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. Her stage plays include Owners (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court, 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock on tour incl. Royal Court Upstairs, 1976, revived at National Theatre, 2015); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment on tour, incl. Half Moon and ICA, 1976); Traps (Royal Court Upstairs, 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock on tour incl. Royal Court, 1979, then Theatre de Lys, New York, 1981); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly and Royal Court Upstairs, 1980); Top Girls (Royal Court, then Public Theater, New York, 1982); Fen (Joint Stock on tour, incl. Almeida and Royal Court, then Public Theater, New York, 1983); Softcops (RSC at the Pit, 1984); A Mouthful of Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock on tour, incl. Royal Court, 1986); Serious Money (Royal Court and Wyndham’s, London, then Public Theater, New York, 1987); Icecream (Royal Court, 1989); Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama, then Royal Court, 1990); Lives of the Great Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride on tour, incl. Riverside Studios, London, 1991); The Skriker (Royal National Theatre, 1994, revived at Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2015); Thyestes translated from Seneca (Royal Court Upstairs, 1994); Hotel with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride on tour, incl. The Place, London, 1997); This is a Chair (London International Festival of Theatre at the Royal Court, 1997); Blue Heart (Joint Stock on tour, incl. Royal Court, 1997); Far Away (Royal Court Upstairs, 2000, and Albery, London, 2001, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002); A Number (Royal Court Downstairs, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2004, revived at Nuffield, Southampton, 2014, then Young Vic, London, 2015); A Dream Play after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre, 2005); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court Downstairs, 2006, then Public Theater, New York, 2008); Bliss translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court Upstairs, 2008); Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza (Royal Court, 2009); Love and Information (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, 2012); Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, 2012); Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015); Escaped Alone (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, 2016); Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, 2016).