Description
Bristles with the intelligence and insight of a major writer. -Financial Times Brilliantly ... evoke[s] the mood of a country through snapshot images. -Guardian An act of moral commitment as well as theatrical virtuosity. -London Sunday Times Mad Forest explores the reactions of ordinary people to confused events, focusing in particular on two families. What emerges is the dreadful damage done to people's lives by repression and the painful difficulties of lasting change. Caryl Churchill's play about the Romanian revolution was written after she, the director and a group of students from London's Central School of Speech and Drama went to Romania to work with acting students there. The play was first performed in 1990, only three months after their return. Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.11w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9781559361149
ISBN10: 155936114X
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Drama | Women Authors
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.11w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9781559361149
ISBN10: 155936114X
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Drama | Women Authors
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
About the Author
Caryl Churchill (1938-) is probably the most respected woman dramatist in the English-speaking world. She is the author of some twenty plays including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away and A Number, seen and admired all over the world. CARYL CHURCHILL's plays include Cloud Nine (revived in 2007 to huge acclaim at the Almeida, London), Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away and A Number. Most are published by NHB.