| #907817 in Books | imusti | 1985-05-09 | 1985-05-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.84 x20.95 x5.20l,.60 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | Methuen Publishing||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Too strange...|By Peter J. Orvetti|I enjoy a wide range of types of plays, and have a fondness for the avant garde, but I found most of these plays impenetrable. I know Churchill is a polarizing playwright, and I can see why. "Owners" and "Vinegar Tom" were my two favorites from this collection. The surreal "Traps" was hard to get my head around -- I could not quite visualize i||Cloud Nine ... ought now to be established as one of the great psycho-sexual comedies of the 20th century. Evening Standard Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine is the cleverist, drollest, most sexily experimental exercise in "compare and contrast" that British theatr
In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions"―Plays and Players Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images and its plethora of ironic contradictions, of and to this century…"―Tribune Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is set during the Civil War and "unflinchingly shows the intoleranc...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Churchill Plays: 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 1) | Caryl Churchill. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
