Caryl Churchill (Author of Top Girls)

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Caryl Churchill

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in London, The United Kingdom

September 03, 1938

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Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, dramatisation of the abuses of power, and exploration of sexual politics.[1] She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and one of world theatre's most influential writers.

Her early work developed Bertolt Brecht's modernist dramatic and theatrical techniques of 'Epic theatre' to explore issues of gender and sexuality. From A Mouthful of Birds (1986) onwards, she began to experiment with forms of dance-theatre, incorporating techniques developed from the performance tradition initiated by Antonin Artaud with his 'Theatre of Cruelty'. This move away from a clear Fabel dramaturgy towards i ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 29,658 ratings · 1,796 reviews · 96 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

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“Maud: Young women are never happy.
Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.
Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9

tags: satire

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“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don鈥檛 relate to oranges.”
― Caryl Churchill, Love and Information

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“Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9

tags: humor, marriage

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