Ding Dong the Wicked by Caryl Churchill
A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another country -
Ding Dong the Wicked
Summary
A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war.
Ding Dong the Wicked Summary
Ding Dong the Wicked Reviews
An intriguing work, with an underlying atmosphere of unease and menace reminiscent of Pinter... it nags away in the memory long after you have left the theatre - The Telegraph The best short play since Harold Pinter's Mountain Language. - Mark Lawson, Front Row A nationalist epic in shorthand... the play kicks in and detonates slowly inside your skull as you leave the building. - Whatsonstage.com As always Churchill seems inventive, coolly socialist, bleak yet dazzling, a bit of a shaman. - Evening Standard Churchill implies that all societies today seethe with a paranoia that turns every knock at the door into a threat, and that we all-too-easily translate our private range into public violence. She also comes up with some graphically concrete images: a dog dead in the road, a child locked in a room, anger at ugly little houses right in the middle of the view.' - The Guardian As ever, Churchill's mastery of language is key... Ding Dong borders on the harrowing...but it also has a streak of black humour a mile wide. - Time Out (London)
About Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill is a leading dramatist whose many plays include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Top Girls, Cloud Nine, Far Away and A Number.
Additional information
GOR010401089
9781848423039
1848423039
Ding Dong the Wicked by Caryl Churchill
Used - Like New
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
20121004
40
N/A
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