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Caryl Churchill Plays: Four (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

Caryl Churchill Plays: Four (NHB Modern Plays)

Caryl Churchill

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

The fourth volume of the collected plays of one of the best playwrights alive.
Written over a period of ten years and evincing an extraordinary range of topics and techniques, this fourth volume of Caryl Churchill's collected plays confirms her standing as a playwright who is 'amongst the best half-dozen now writing' (The Times).
This volume includes:
Hotel

This is a Chair Blue Heart

Far Away A Number

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? A Dream Play
'Lasts less than an hour but packs in more emotion, ideas, and disconcerting strangeness, than many dramatists manage in half dozen dramas' - Daily Telegraph on 'A Number'
'Leaves you feeling both chilled and scalded...outstanding' - Sunday Times on 'A Number'
Available since: 10/09/2014.
Print length: 320 pages.

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