The Skriker by Caryl Churchill Paperback Book

Description: The Skriker by Caryl Churchill An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.Caryl Churchills play The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994.Unwholesome, hypnotic and born in the dark... spellbinding— Independent on Sunday Author Biography Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio.Her stage plays include: Owners (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court, 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock, 1976); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment, 1976); Traps (Royal Court, 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock, 1979); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly and Royal Court, 1980); Top Girls (Royal Court, 1982); Fen (Joint Stock, 1983); Softcops (RSC, 1984); A Mouthful of Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock, 1986); Serious Money (Royal Court and Wyndhams, London, then Public Theater, New York, 1987); Icecream (Royal Court, 1989); Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama, then Royal Court, 1990); Lives of the Great Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1991); The Skriker (Royal National Theatre, 1994); Thyestes translated from Seneca (Royal Court, 1994); Hotel with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride, 1997); This is a Chair (Royal Court, 1997); Blue Heart (Joint Stock, 1997); Far Away (Royal Court, 2000, and Albery, London, 2001, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002); A Number (Royal Court, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2004); A Dream Play after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre, 2005); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court, 2006, then Public Theater, New York, 2008); Bliss, translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court, 2008); Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza (Royal Court, 2009); Love and Information (Royal Court, 2012); Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court, 2012); Here We Go (National Theatre, 2015); Escaped Alone (Royal Court, 2016), Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court, 2016), Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. (Royal Court, 2019) and What If If Only (Royal Court, 2021). Review Unwholesome, hypnotic and born in the dark... spellbinding * Independent on Sunday * Review Quote unwholesome, hypnotic and born in the dark... spellbinding Excerpt from Book Long before that, long before England was an idea, a country of snow and wolves where trees sang and birds talked and people knew we mattered. Details ISBN1854592750 Author Caryl Churchill Publisher Nick Hern Books Year 1994 ISBN-10 1854592750 ISBN-13 9781854592750 Format Paperback Imprint Nick Hern Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 822.914 Media Book Birth 1938 Pages 52 Publication Date 1994-02-17 AU Release Date 1994-02-17 NZ Release Date 1994-02-17 UK Release Date 1994-02-17 Series NHB Modern Plays Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:943201;

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