This Is a Chair - by Caryl Churchill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A stunning experimental short play by Caryl Churchill<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life." -<i>Guardian</i> <p/>"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" -<i>Daily Telegraph</i> <p/><i>This is a Chair</i> 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. <p/><b>Caryl Churchill</b> has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include<i> Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest</i> and <i>A Number</i>. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>"Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life." - <i>Guardian</i> <p/>"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" - <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CARYL CHURCHILL's plays include Cloud Nine (revived in 2007 to huge acclaim at the Almeida, London), Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away and A Number. Most are published by NHB. Caryl Churchill (1938-) is probably the most respected woman dramatist in the English-speaking world. She is the author of some twenty plays including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away and A Number, seen and admired all over the world.
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