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Caryl Churchill

June 2024

  • Intense … Fortunato Leccese, Tania Garribba, Tessa Battaiotto, Alice Palazzi and Francesco Villano in L'Amore del Cuore (Heart’s Desire) at Coronet theatre

    L’Amore Del Cuore (Heart’s Desire) review – enticing Italian take on Caryl Churchill

    This gnomic production of Churchill’s 1997 play, about a couple awaiting their daughter’s return, is packed with confusions and curveballs

December 2023

  • Apparently Palestinian men in combat gear on stage.

    Leading lights of UK stage call for Israeli release of Palestinian theatre group

    Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre

October 2023

  • Ortonesque double act … Mark Huckett and Tom Morley in Owners at Jermyn Street theatre, London.

    Owners review – Caryl Churchill’s 1970s housing comedy is still bleakly relevant

    Often outrageously funny, Churchill’s play grimly reveals the costs and risks involved in private renting

September 2023

  • Michael Gambon in 2006.

    Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

    A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

August 2023

  • Four women sit on chairs in the midst of a field of wildflowers onstage

    Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – this Caryl Churchill double bill opens with a masterpiece

    These two short plays by the legendary UK playwright span afternoon tea and the apocalypse, past and future, grief and survival

March 2023

  • Sky Frances, Tala Gouveia and Ailsa Joy in Top Girls.

    The week in theatre: Top Girls; The Great British Bake Off Musical; Sleepova; Oklahoma! – review

  • Tala Gouveia (centre) as Marlene in Top Girls at the Everyman theatre.

    Top Girls review – Caryl Churchill’s classic with a Toxteth twist

November 2022

  • Caryl Churchill

    Cancellation of award for playwright Caryl Churchill condemned

    Leading figures in British theatre and film criticise decision not to give Churchill award because of her support for Palestinian rights

September 2022

  • A scene from Seven Jewish Children @ Royal Court (Opening 11-02-09). ©Tristram Kenton 02/09 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Antisemitism claims at the Royal Court theatre

    Letters: Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops

February 2022

  • Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu in A Number at the Old Vic.

    The week in theatre: A Number; The Glow – review

  • Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu in A Number.

    A Number review – Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu scintillate as father and sons

January 2022

  • Lennie James

    Lennie James: ‘I wasn’t willing to let somebody else decide what my ambition should be’

  • Daniel Craig and Michael Gambon in A Number

    Sons, fathers and clones: Caryl Churchill’s A Number – in pictures

October 2021

  • Cush Jumbo as Hamlet.

    The week in theatre: Hamlet; The Mirror and the Light; What If If Only

  • Linda Bassett and John Heffernan in Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only.

    What If If Only review – short and sharp, with shades of Scrooge

June 2021

  • Twice unhappy lover ... Gracy Goldman with Dan Gaisford in Three More Sleepless Nights at Greenwich theatre, London.

    Bad Nights and Odd Days review – prescient and daring Caryl Churchill

    A respiratory crisis in a world tensed by terrorism is among topical themes in this compelling showcase of the playwright’s shorter, earlier works

September 2020

  • Caryl Churchill's A Number

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    From Top Girls to The Skriker: the best of Caryl Churchill – in pictures

    As we continue to open up photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive, revisit the work of one of Britain’s great playwrights, Caryl Churchill, with shots of productions with Suranne Jones, Maxine Peake, Daniel Craig and more

June 2020

  • David Swift and Jill Bennett in Owners.

    Forgotten plays
    Forgotten plays: No 5 – Owners (1972) by Caryl Churchill

    The writer unleashed her gift for black comedy to excoriate British attitudes to property and possessions in this sprightly drama

April 2020

  • Sofa, so claustrophobic … Toby Jones in Caryl Churchill’s Imp.

    Lockdown culture
    No exit: the best plays about confinement, from Sophocles to Sartre

    Dramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation

February 2020

  • Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Bridge Theatre 16. l-r Roger Allam (Salter) and Colin Morgan (B2). Photo credit Johan Persson

    The week in theatre: A Number; The Visit; Alone in Berlin – review

    Cloned siblings cast fleeting shadows in a vivid Caryl Churchill revival, while Lesley Manville dazzles in an unwieldy revenge drama
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