Cloud Nine - Couverture souple

Churchill, Caryl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854590901 ISBN 13 : 9781854590909

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 1989

Synopsis

Written for Joint Stock, this theatre company's workshop for the play was "sexual politics," thus giving Caryl Churchill the idea for her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression. Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London. Much interplay is made of gender and colour: for example, Clive, the white settler, has a black servant, Joshua, who is played by a white because he wants to be what the whites want him to be. Hilarious and thought-provoking.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. First staged by Joint Stock and premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979, it has since been staged all over the world.

Cloud Nine is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, and money.

Revue de presse :

The play that established Caryl Churchill as the most imaginatively daring of our major dramatists; and, nearly 30 years after its premiere, it still seems not only remarkably inventive but as sharp about the contradictions of gender as anything that has been written since. --The Times

Sharp comedy and a serious purpose are splendidly combined... It unlocks the imagination, liberates the mind, and leaves you weak with laughter. --Time Out

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1854590901
• ISBN 13: 9781854590909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92