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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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