This Is a Chair by Caryl Churchill

This Is a Chair by Caryl Churchill

Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life. -Guardian

Puts 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 -Daily Telegraph

This is a Chair 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.

Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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ISBN 13	9781559361774
ISBN 10	1559361778
Title	This Is a Chair
Author	Caryl Churchill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Year published	1999-10-21
Number of pages	64
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