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Caryl Churchill Plays: Four (NHB Modern Plays)
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About This Book
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'
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BLUE HEART
Blue Heart was first produced by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, on 14 August 1997. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 19 August 1997 and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 17 September 1997, with the following cast:
Heartās Desire | Blue Kettle | |
MOTHER | Gabrielle Blunt | |
SUZY | ENID | Jacqueline Defferary |
YOUNG WOMAN | Karina Fernandez | |
BRIAN | MR VANE | Bernard Gallagher |
ALICE | MRS PLANT | Valerie Lilley |
MAISIE | MRS OLIVER | Mary Macleod |
MRS VANE | Eve Pearce | |
LEWIS | DEREK | Jason Watkins |
MISS CLARENCE | Anna Wing | |
CHILDREN | Played by local children | |
Director | Max Stafford-Clark | |
Designer | Julian McGowan | |
Lighting Designer | Johanna Town | |
Sound Designer | Paul Arditti | |
The same production was revived for an international tour in 1998, with the following cast changes: | ||
Heartās Desire | Blue Heart | |
SUZY | ENID | Sally Rogers |
YOUNG WOMAN | Kirsty Bushell | |
BRIAN | MR VANE | Ewan Hooper |
MRS VANE | Doreen Mantle | |
LEWIS | DEREK | Pearce Quigley |
The production received its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on 27 Jan 1999, with the same cast.
Heartās Desire
Characters
BRIAN
ALICE
MAISIE
SUSY
LEWIS
LOTS OF CHILDREN
TWO GUNMEN
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN WOMAN
OFFICIAL
BIRD
Brian and Alice are married. Maisie is Brianās sister.
They are all about 60. Susy, their daughter, is 35,
Lewis, their son, is younger.
They are all about 60. Susy, their daughter, is 35,
Lewis, their son, is younger.
The scene is Brian and Aliceās kitchen.
ALICE and MAISIE. ALICE setting knives and forks on table, MAISIE fidgets about the room. BRIAN enters putting on a red sweater. | |
BRIAN | Sheās taking her time. |
ALICE | Not really. |
They all stop, BRIAN goes out. Others reset to beginning and do exactly what they did before as BRIAN enters putting on a tweed jacket. | |
BRIAN | Sheās taking her time. |
ALICE | Not really. |
They all stop, BRIAN goes out, others reset and BRIAN enters putting on an old cardigan. | |
BRIAN | Sheās taking her time. |
ALICE | Not really. |
BRIAN | We should have met the plane. |
ALICE | We should not. |
MAISIE | What I really envy her for is the fauna because itās down a completely separate branch of evolu... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Hotel
- This is a Chair
- Blue Heart
- Far Away
- A Number
- A Dream Play
- Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information