Light Shining in Buckinghamshire - Softcover

Churchill, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559361301 ISBN 13: 9781559361309

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 1997

Synopsis

"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." -Steve Grant

"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." -The Guardian

"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." -Mel Gussow, New York Times

An early masterwork by one of the world’s leading playwrights, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is an impressive exercise in historical drama, dealing with the rawness of life during England’s Civil War. It was first staged in 1976 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and revived at the National Theatre in 1996.

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.

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About the Author

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.

Review

"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant

"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian

"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian

"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times




"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant

"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian

"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian

"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1559361301
• ISBN 13: 9781559361309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80