Cloud Nine

by Caryl Churchill

Overview

Comedy / Casting: 4m 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors

The time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies plays and novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex. There is Clive a British functionary his wife Betty (played by a man) their daughter Victoria (a rag doll) Clive's

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573618741
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	09/14/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	539,454
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d)

Editorial Reviews

"...the play offered an interesting commentary on prescribed notions of gender and sexuality..." — Brown Daily Herald
"...Miss Churchill has found a theatrical method that is easily as dizzying as her theme. Not only does she examine a cornucopia of sexual permutations—from heterosexual adultery right up to bisexual incest— but she does so with a wild array of dramatic styles and tricks...Miss Churchill, as you might gather is one deft writer." — Frank Rich, The New York Times
"An examination of postcolonialism and gender issues doesn't sound like the kindling for a hot night on the town. But Brit playwright Caryl Churchill knows what'she's doing when she uses these subjects as the launching pads for her absurd sense of humor and critical commentary. Her 1982 play Cloud Nine—a two act drama in which time and identity are not the rigid constructions we know them to be-is arguably the pinnacle of the playwright's career." — Eye Weekly, Toronto
"Miss Churchill has a highly original imagination, and if what'she's got to say is familiar it's funnier and fresher than the last time we heard it said . . . [Cloud Nine] is succinctly sassy, elegantly insulting, written with a quill pen that seems to have been deftly dipped in ice water." — Walter Kerr, The New York Times

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