Caryl Churchill

Impossible to categorise and always unpredictable in her innovations, Caryl Churchill is one of the world's great contemporary playwrights. Mary Luckhurst's volume explores Churchill's preoccupations with sexuality and gender, ecology and the environment, war, genocide, child abuse and parenting and presents her as a playwright who is profoundly engaged with governance, individual accountability, and theatre as a site of political agitation. In the quest for a new political theatre, Churchill has consistently experimented with form and worked across performance disciplines. Containing substantial new material from directors and actors who have worked with Churchill, this volume examines her various aesthetic agendas, selected pioneering productions, and the differing working methods and creative collaborations that she has embarked upon.LUCKHURST is the author of 'Caryl Churchill', published 2009 under ISBN 9780415345781 and ISBN 0415345782.