{"product_id":"this-is-a-chair-book-caryl-churchill-9781559361774","title":"This Is a Chair","description":"Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life. -\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePuts one in mid of the painter Magritte.Each brief scene is preceded by doomy, tabloid television 'news music', and a graphic announcing some heavy topical subject - The War in Bosnia, for instance, or the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Then the performers. play a scene that has nothing to do with its title.The piece creates a haunting impression of urban alienation, self-obsession and pre-millennial tension -\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is a Chair\u003c\/i\u003e is an experimental short play by Caryl Churchill in which heavy topical news bulletins are each followed by a scene that has nothing to do with the news announcement. This one-act play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the 1997 London International Festival of Theatre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryl Churchill\u003c\/b\u003e has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include\u003ci\u003e Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Number\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50390091432209,"sku":"CIN1559361778G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037407510801,"sku":"NIN9781559361774","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1559361778.jpg?v=1751275981","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/this-is-a-chair-buch-caryl-churchill-9781559361774","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}