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TWO PLAYS BY CARYL CHURCHILL
Six years after her last full-length play, leading dramatist Caryl Churchill returns with two extraordinary
new works. As formally inventive and thrillingly allusive as anything she has written, they are brilliant
additions to a body of work, built up over more than forty years, that includes the modern classics
Top Girls, A Number, Cloud Nine, Far Away and Light Shining in Buckinghamshire.
LOVE AND INFORMATION
by Caryl Churchill
A stunningly ambitious work – a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more
than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.
Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone shares a secret.
Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs.
Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone
hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message
from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.
‘succinct and thought-provoking’ Huffington Post
‘[an] exhilarating theatrical kaleidoscope’ Guardian
‘a wonderful web of complex emotions, memories,
secrets and facts’ A Younger Theatre
World Premiere: Royal Court Theatre, 6 September-13 October,
directed by James Macdonald
ISBN: 978 1 84842 288 9 • £9.99 • Script available now
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DING DONG THE WICKED
by Caryl Churchill
A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists.
'No one could blame me. I've been hurt. You're a monster.'
A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing
her brother-in-law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And
meanwhile in another country…
‘the best short play since Harold Pinter’s
Mountain Language’ Mark Lawson, Front Row
‘a nationalist epic in shorthand’ Whatsonstage.com
‘an intriguing work… it nags away in the memory’ Guardian
World Premiere: Royal Court Theatre, 1-13 October,
directed by Dominic Cooke
ISBN: 978 1 84842 303 9 • £7.99 • Script available now
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