Ms. Chavkin, too, likes Ms. Churchill’s process, but she was particularly drawn to this play’s urgent politics. At that time, Caryl was only 10 years old. ", Corduner admits the question has occurred to him. And there is a combination of being very open to suggestion – she enjoys the process of collaboration – but also of being very specific about what she wants in some cases. Will Smith talks to John Wilson about his new film Concussion, Caryl Churchill's lastest play Escaped Alone, Iran as the next tourist hotspot and Ringo Starr on his birthplace. I think, although she's clearly a feminist and stands for many things feminism admires, she doesn't judge people by gender. I didn’t like being a barrister’s wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. 'It's unofficial, unannounced and unbelievably overdue, but 1997 is the year of Caryl Churchill', wrote David Benedict in an interview with the playwright in April 1997.¹ 1997 was indeed a landmark year in Churchill's playwriting career, a year which saw major revivals of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Cloud Nine, the staging of three new works: Hotel, This is a Chair, and Blue Heart, and the … By the mid-1960s, I had this gloomy feeling that when the Revolution came I would be swept away.”. —Caryl Churchill, Interview in Ms., May 1982 Of all the plays of the 1970s and 1980s that offered a radical and daring reassessment of sex, race, and gender, Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill is certainly one of the most innovative and timeless in treating its subjects in the widest possible context of power politics, patriarchy, and modern identity. She gives directors enormous leeway, but often gives them little to go on. It seemed claustrophobic. Are you up for it?" Possibly because, as a publisher, he feels this refusal most keenly, Hern has had the conversation. So, in that sense, they just turn up on my desk. About The Production 2. In it, Ms. Churchill throws the greatest and most surreal dinner party of all time. Photograph: Jane Bown for the Guardian. She is known for her work on Play for Tomorrow (1982), Court of Mystery (1961) and Caryl Churchill, Writer: Play for Tomorrow. In a 1987 interview with Perhaps because of her public invisibility, Churchill is often described as shy, but Corduner, who also appeared in the economic comedy Serious Money (1987), has a different reading: "She is so confident about her work that she can discuss it without defensiveness. I didn’t expect to get an answer (Ms. Churchill hasn’t granted a real interview since the 1990s) and indeed, I did not get one. The volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000). Called Hot Fudge, an allusion to the other play, Corduner recalls that this unexpected extra was "rehearsed and staged in record time". By the early 1970s she was writing for the professional stage, and became Resident Dramatist at the Ro… Caryl Churchill is a popular English dramatist known for writing plays on the theme of feminism. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read English. Tydeman hints at a private stability that underlies this quiet certainty. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. It was just there. One of her merits as a playwright is that she tends to divide people. Caryl Churchill, one of the most significant British dramatists of the late twentieth century, first emerged as a major playwright in the 1980s. The volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000). She can knock out humourless preachy rhetoric by the yard but as for the rest of it she hasn’t a clue.” He was just getting going. He has never met Churchill's husband, David Harter, a campaigning solicitor, but she would often refer, during their working years, to her three sons and "writing the plays at the kitchen table". Having started out with undefined idealistic assumptions about the kind of life we could lead, we had drifted into something quite conventional and middle class and boring. “This is a play about collective liberation, and features a slew of characters who are fighting for acknowledgment, equality, and liberty,” Ms. Chavkin explained. After the war ended the family moved to Montreal. TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill~l-r: Helen Anderson (Lady Nijo), Joanna Scanlan (Pope Joan), Hattie Ladbury (Marlene), Sophie Shaw (Patient Griselda), Pascale Burgess (Dull Gret), Elizabeth Berrington (I... TOP GIRLS by Caryl Even with a work that had taken a great deal of historical research, such as one called Schreber's Nervous Illness, the play would just turn up in the post.". A play isn't planned or premeditated; it's scratching an itch. In the light of Churchill's silence, I talked to a number of people who have worked with her instead. Methuen Drama (A&C Black Publishers Ltd) allowed me to cite from the text of Top Girls used in Caryl Churchill Plays: 2.1 would like to acknowledge Michael Daniels for permission to print his photo of Bianca Amato as Marlene Playwright Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. “The play is hopelessly ineffective on every level,” Mr. Evans wrote. She gathers around a table eminent women from various points in history, including the explorer Isabella Bird, the Japanese Emperor’s courtesan and memoirist Lady Nijo, the subject of the Bruegel painting “Dulle Griet” (also known as Mad Meg) and Pope Joan, a woman thought to have been pope while disguised as a man from 855-858. Her mother was a fashion model, her father a political cartoonist. You can do almost anything in a radio play.” Even so, Churchill wasn’t happy with her life. It wasn't: 'I vant to be alone. She has consistently and relentlessly pushed the boundaries of theatre since her first play in 1972. “In the run up to the 2016 election, I remember discussing with Jim the possibility of doing Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros,’ ” she recalled. Her most recent plays, “Here We Go,” about faith and mortality, and “Escaped Alone,” which envisions a dystopian future, appeared in 2015 and 2016. ", Ah, the interviews. Wandor says: "I've never discussed it with her. Caryl Churchill, Writer: Play for Tomorrow. Methuen Drama (A&C Black Publishers Ltd) allowed me to cite from the text of Top Girls used in Caryl Churchill Plays: 2.1 would like to acknowledge Michael Daniels for permission to print his photo of Bianca Amato as Marlene ''I do take a little pleasure in discussing my plays, but it's a dangerous pleasure,'' says Caryl Churchill, one of the most inventive British playwrights of her generation. From the creators of SparkNotes. One of her most intricate, “Love and Information,” which opened at the Royal Court in 2012 and ran Off Broadway two years later has 100 characters (!) Isn't that interesting?" After college she wrote radio dramas for the BBC, married a barrister and had three sons. Learn more about Churchill’s life and career, including her various awards. ", Churchill's interest in vocal counterpoint has continued, and tested Hern at Methuen. Learn more about Churchill’s life and career, including her various awards. Rachel Chavkin, at center, the director of “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire” with the cast, from left: Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Evelyn Spahr, Vinie Burrows, Mr. Jeffers, Rob Campbell and Gregg Mozgala. But I think it is true that to have had major theatrical success, male directors still seem pretty pivotal, and the management/directing by Max Stafford-Clark [her longterm collaborator at the Royal Court] was crucial to the successes of the earlier work. It's an experience shared by Michelene Wandor, a dramatist who worked with Churchill on the multi-author cabaret Floorshow (1977); she says that, "while friendly, Caryl kept herself very much to herself". But I've never discussed it with her. "I have been very conscious of that during rehearsals. Told through a theatrically-adventurous medley of short vignettes, Love and Information features an ensemble of actors performing over 100 roles. Told through a theatrically-adventurous medley of short vignettes, Love and Information features an ensemble of actors performing over 100 roles. Downstairs, her first play, was written while she was still at university, and was first staged in 1958, winning an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival. At that time, Caryl was only 10 years old. I've never detected a yearning to have her work directed by women. When she lived in Montreal, she studied at Trafalgar School for Girls. The elliptical, quasi-poetic quality of the dialogue is the most interesting element." Another unusual feature of her production is a captioning board, visible at the back of the stage, for the hearing-impaired. As I wandered the Royal Court, alone and with a guide, and saw a smart new play there (Thomas Eccleshare’s “Instructions for Correct Assembly”), I sensed that, handed a time machine, the play I’d most want to beam myself backward to witness on opening night might well be “Top Girls.”. ", In the unlikely event that Churchill ever agreed to an interview, one question that might come up would be the fact that – from Tydeman to Cooke, Stephen Daldry and James Macdonald at the Court – she has worked almost exclusively with male directors. Ms. Churchill’s play picks up from there. At 79, the playwright is still vital and working. Caryl Churchill was born on September 3, 1938 in Finsbury, London, England as Caryl Lesley Churchill. They come to me – originally in the post, now by email – and I sit down to read them, having absolutely no idea what the length or subject matter or form will be. "She trusts actors and doesn't want to tread on your territory." Cooke, who directs Ding Dong the Wicked, says: "She is a very strong presence in rehearsals. From the creators of SparkNotes. The British Library talks with Stafford-Clark about the play’s political context and why he called it the ‘Best play I’ve ever directed’. “Buckinghamshire” is not universally beloved. Hailed as one of England's greatest living playwrights, Caryl Churchill has provoked audiences for over four decades. “We’re working to make the language chewy rather than floaty,” she said. I'd put her up there with Stoppard, although her reputation may be lower than it should be – because she has chosen to stay in the background. Roger Allam interview: 'Caryl Churchill is like Picasso — she's able to stay at the edge of things' | London Evening Standard By Caryl Churchill BACKGROUND PACK CONTENTS 1. You could say that the arrival of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at the National Theatre is timely, only it’s hard to think of a time when it wouldn’t be. In a 1987 interview with while ordering avocado vinaigrette and Waldorf salad and many bottles of wine. Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio. ", Even before that, the writer had asked for a specific and unusual layout of her scripts (character names set to the left, with a uniform gap before the dialogue began). The British Library talks with Stafford-Clark about the play’s political context and why he called it the ‘Best play I’ve ever directed’. Caryl Churchill is one of Britain’s leading playwrights of the 21st century, and is still writing for the stage today. "I think at the start it was happenstance rather than choice, because the men were rather in the majority. Decades before digital editing made such effects effortless, Tydeman needed to work with broadcasting's best technicians. "The plays aren't usually formally commissioned. The actor Allan Corduner was rehearsing Ice-Cream at the Royal Court in 1989 when, he says, "Caryl came in and said: 'I've just written another new play. King Charles I has been imprisoned for corruption; royalists have fled their estates. At the Royal Court, Ms. Churchill’s language lingers in the air. I began going to organizing meetings and I wanted to feed that fire, not rub salt in the wound.”, Ms. Chavkin continued: “Although this play is about a revolution that did not quite happen, there was so much profound hope in the moment. As I can't put the question to Churchill herself, I asked her collaborators if they knew why she refused to talk about her work. I think she's one of those shamanistic writers, in the way Harold Pinter was. Caryl Churchill at a rehearsal for her play The Skriker in Manchester in 2015. Caryl Churchill is a popular English dramatist known for writing plays on the theme of feminism. Her notable plays included Cloud 9, Top Girls, Serious Money, and A Number. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read English. The final word goes to Tydeman, who says, "I'm talking about working with [Caryl], but I was always struck by how little work was needed. This dissertation analyzes Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine (1979) with the help of an eclectic theoretical framework enriched with a critical approach drawn from the ideas prevalent around the discussions of feminism, gender politics, and the construction and the When he was having trouble finding a character in Serious Money, she gently replied that she couldn't help. In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. The plays about which the writer won't speak tend to emerge out of silence themselves. So did Ann Jellicoe’s “The Knack” (1962), and Ms. Churchill’s own “Top Girls” (1982). Back at Methuen, I would come out of editorial meetings, having been asked if I could get Caryl to do this or that to promote the books. It was always about creative self-consciousness. On a recent trip to London, I attempted to arrange an interview with Caryl Churchill, who alongside Tom Stoppard is considered the greatest living English playwright. The language is indeed chewy, but it is a lot to bite off. And I said: 'Oh, my God, how are we going to do that?' Case Histories: the ‘rat man’, Schreber, the ‘wolf man’, a … “We want it to sound not like Shakespeare, but like something you could hear in a bar in Bushwick.”, The production features several actors with disabilities. As Churchill told The Guardian in 1972, “Radio is good because it makes you precise. During rehearsal, she is absolutely clear-headed about what does and doesn't work, which is quite rare in writers. The Top Girls, Far Away and Vinegar Tom author, Caryl Churchill turns 80 this year, top directors and playwrights take an in-depth look at how her work has changed the theatre landscapen About The Design 5. So we had to put the play together in very small takes. You could say that the arrival of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at the National Theatre is timely, only it’s hard to think of a time when it wouldn’t be. —Caryl Churchill, Interview in Ms., May 1982 Of all the plays of the 1970s and 1980s that offered a radical and daring reassessment of sex, race, and gender, Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill is certainly one of the most innovative and timeless in treating its subjects in the widest possible context of power politics, patriarchy, and modern identity. London is enjoying a mini-season of plays by Caryl Churchill – minimal in length but maximal in implication, each attesting to the 81-year-old playwright’s formidable powers of … Caryl Churchill Is Back. During the next nine weeks I wrote a script, and went on working on it with the company during the six-week rehearsal period.”. Caryl Churchill’s The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution: Algerian Decolonization in a Protean Contemporary Context” (1979). Ms. Churchill won the first of her five Obie Awards in 1982 for “Cloud Nine.” She would win as well for “Top Girls,” “Serious Money” and “A Number,” in addition to one for lifetime achievement. Trying to obtain an audience with her is like trying to obtain one with Thomas Pynchon or Cormac McCarthy. I have no idea what I'm getting." For one thing, she has been known to squeeze a lot of human beings into her plays. Matthew Jeffers during rehearsals for Caryl Churchill’s “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire,” at New York Theater Workshop. "I've never discussed her refusal to do publicity," insists Cooke. On a recent trip to London, I attempted to arrange an interview with Caryl Churchill, who alongside Tom Stoppard is considered the greatest living English playwright. You leave her plays mentally ablaze, eager to argue. Cooke concurs: "I don't think she's been given enough credit for the quality of her dialogue – the way she captures a situation or a character in just a few lines. "We were sitting one day and Caryl said: 'I want to have overlapping dialogue.' Upon returning to England to attend university, Churchill started writing, and her earliest plays – including Downstairs and You've No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time– were performed by Oxford student theatre companies. Prepare to Be Provoked. Her innovations in this regard are sometimes so startling and compelling that reviewers tend to focus on the novelty of her works to the exclusion of her ideas. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. 1 Caryl Churchill – the ‘Picasso’ of Modern British Theatre 1 Elaine Aston As the widely acclaimed dinner scene of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls (1982) comes to a close, top girl Marlene’s female guests descend into a state of drunken Mark Lawson talks to actors, directors and her publisher about what really makes Churchill tick, Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best, 'The plays speak for themselves' … Caryl Churchill in 1972. Ms. Churchill did not compose this play in remote isolation. Caryl Churchill apparently also delighted in angering Margaret Thatcher, the very conservative Prime Minister of the 80s who did not care for theatre and was as far from a socialist as one possibly can be. Her early plays included “Owners” (1972), about landlords and greed, which had its premiere at the Royal Court, and “Buckinghamshire.” Her breakthrough arrived with “Cloud Nine” (1979), a play in which one act is set in Victorian times in colonial Africa and the other in a present day London park. Tantalisingly, there have now been two new plays within a month that journalists can't ask her about: today, the Royal Court in London premieres Ding Dong the Wicked, a half-hour drama that will run alongside Love and Information, the enthusiastically reviewed full-length play that opened there three weeks ago. played by 16 actors. Caryl Churchill is one of Britain’s leading playwrights of the 21st century, and is still writing for the stage today. “Buckinghamshire” is a waterfall of antique language, and Ms. Chavkin wants to make sure that language is heard. "We never commissioned her. She is entirely without ego.". And we worked it out, using a forward slash, and even put a little example of how it would work at the front of the script. Writing in The Guardian in 2008, on the occasion of Ms. Churchill’s 70th birthday, the English playwright Mark Ravenhill declared: “It is a play that is rich in language: prayer, debate, ecstatic meetings, the stumbling attempts of the newly empowered to find a voice.”. Take, for example, Ms. Churchill’s 1976 play “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire,” which is now in previews and opens May 7 at New York Theater Workshop. Noah Galvin, left, and Adante Power in Ms. Churchill’s “Love and Information,” in which actors play multiple roles. About The Production 2. Ms. Churchill cooked dinner for Ms. Chavkin last summer in London. Detailed 'It's unofficial, unannounced and unbelievably overdue, but 1997 is the year of Caryl Churchill', wrote David Benedict in an interview with the playwright in April 1997.¹ 1997 was indeed a landmark year in Churchill's playwriting career, a year which saw major revivals of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Cloud Nine, the staging of three new works: Hotel, This is a Chair, and Blue Heart, and the announcement by Nick … “Caryl is a writer but she’s also a theatermaker at heart. James Macdonald is Caryl Churchill's most trusted director. "She talks more in general terms," says Corduner. Your wits need to hurry to keep up with the audacious, haunting and often horribly funny games the veteran dramatist is playing in Glass.Kill. Since its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 1982, Max Stafford-Clark has directed numerous productions of Top Girls, Caryl Churchill’s ground-breaking feminist play. Again, it's that confidence. As well as challenging theatre schedules, Churchill's plays have a long record of testing production possibilities. Churchill was born in London in 1938. She's completely non-dogmatic. All these individuals were saying things are unjust, and they wanted to change that.”. '", Another thing Churchill's people agree on is that critics focus too much on her structural jumps. ", Tydeman agrees, finding the writer "diffident and quiet, willing to listen to advice but with firmly held views on certain aspects of the text or production". She has virtually no dramatic skills. Since its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 1982, Max Stafford-Clark has directed numerous productions of Top Girls, Caryl Churchill’s ground-breaking feminist play. Every play almost reinvents the form of theatre." Since the death of JD Salinger, one of my biggest regrets as an interviewer is that Caryl Churchill declines to speak publicly about her work. Nick Hern, who has published Churchill's plays for 40 years, first at Methuen and now at his own company, NHB, says: "The plays just turn up, without warning. Introduction to Love and Information 4. Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, dramatisation of the abuses of power, and exploration of sexual politics. "I'm most impressed by dialogue, rather than the form," says Wandor, "which has, I think, always had uncertainties about it. "The exciting thing about Caryl," says Cooke, "is that she always tends to break new ground. There is no other modern playwright quite like her. ", Has her diffidence when it comes to interviews had an effect on her reputation? Which, as you know, is also the attitude that she takes to interviews. Flexibility, it rapidly emerges, is a key quality for her collaborators. "One of the things that always strikes me about her is that I think she's the only person in my address book who is still living at the same house she was living in in the early 1960s." She said that, if she became analytical about the plays, she was worried that whatever it is that produces them will go away. When the play was staged at London’s National Theater in 2015, however, the critic Lloyd Evans, writing in The Spectator, used it as an occasion to drop an incendiary bomb on her entire oeuvre. She is known for her work on Play for Tomorrow (1982), Court of Mystery (1961) and In British Playwrights 1956 – 1995, American critic and writer Amelia Howe Kritzer says Bluebeard. About The Writer 3. These highly verbal women hash out their views on politics and sex and health and the patriarchy and religion (“I knew coming to dinner with a pope we should keep off religion,” Isabella cracks.) Caryl Churchill, British playwright whose work frequently dealt with feminist issues, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. Will Smith talks to John Wilson about his new film Concussion, Caryl Churchill's lastest play Escaped Alone, Iran as the next tourist hotspot and Ringo Starr on his birthplace. The critic Robert Brustein remarked that if moviegoing is a solitary act, theatergoing is a communal one. About The Writer 3. “So the humans in the cast should reflect and embody that as powerfully as possible.”. “I didn’t like being a barrister’s wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life,” Ms. Churchill wrote of what drew her to playwriting. TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill~l-r: Helen Anderson (Lady Nijo), Joanna Scanlan (Pope Joan), Hattie Ladbury (Marlene), Sophie Shaw (Patient Griselda), Pascale Burgess (Dull Gret), Elizabeth Berrington (I... TOP GIRLS by Caryl "Kenneth had to record the second speech while we played the first one back, and it turned out that it was almost impossible to do that (keeping pace with your own voice) for more than 30 or 40 seconds at a time. Caryl Churchill apparently also delighted in angering Margaret Thatcher, the very conservative Prime Minister of the 80s who did not care for theatre and was as far from a socialist as one possibly can be. Photograph: Jane Bown for the Guardian S ince the death of JD Salinger, one of my biggest regrets as an interviewer is that Caryl Churchill declines to speak publicly about her work. “But suddenly it was too late. The late addition to this autumn's repertoire of Ding Dong the Wicked marks the second time the author has turned up at rehearsal with a second new play. Get all the key plot points of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls on one page. Few make this more apparent than does Ms. Churchill. About The Design 5. Caryl Churchill is a luminary of contemporary drama: one of the world’s foremost living playwrights and an author of over 30 plays. Playwright Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. He calls “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire” perhaps his favorite play of all time. Caryl Churchill, British playwright whose work frequently dealt with feminist issues, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. More essentially, she is communal in her working methods. But it is interesting that it continued." "Mmm. I just laugh a lot.”, Lucy Kirkwood, a fellow playwright, singled out Ms. Churchill’s commitment to experimentation in a glowing tribute earlier this year. She went to college at Lady Margaret Hall, a woman’s college at Oxford University, where she began writing plays. "We just accept that that will be the situation with each play." She was born on the cusp of World War II. By Nasrullah Mambrol on May 16, 2019 • (2) Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938, London) has become well known for her willingness to experiment with dramatic structure. Her stage directions are few. In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. Factions of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians are trying to draft a new constitution. This is still the case, says Dominic Cooke, artistic director of the Royal Court. The Rhino was in the White House. I want to see what we come up with.”. says Tydeman. Complete 1991 BBC and Open University filmed for television co-production of Caryl Churchill's 1982 play. It’s a ferocious work that employs cross-gender casting and is about, among other things, sexual stereotypes. The director is Rachel Chavkin, who received a 2017 Tony Award nomination for “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.”. It takes its title from a Digger pamphlet titled “More Light Shining in Buckinghamshire,” which included this line: “You great Curmudgeons, you hang a man for stealing, when you yourselves have stolen from your brethren all land and creatures.” It’s a play about bravery and optimism. The Top Girls, Far Away and Vinegar Tom author, Caryl Churchill turns 80 this year, top directors and playwrights take an in-depth look at how her work has changed the theatre landscapen Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage, television and radio. From left: Marisa Tomei, Mary Beth Hurt, Elizabeth Marvel and Martha Plimpton in the 2008 Broadway revival of Ms. Churchill’s ”Top Girls.”, “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.”. As he takes on her new work at the Royal Court, Matt Trueman hears that he's not interested in dramas which don't take risks PDF downloads of all 1383 LitCharts literature guides, and of every new one we publish. ", John Tydeman, the former head of BBC radio drama, has directed half a dozen Churchill radio plays, starting with Lovesick in 1966; he also staged her play Objections to Sex and Violence, at the Royal Court in 1975. Caryl Churchill is a luminary of contemporary drama: one of the world’s foremost living playwrights and an author of over 30 plays. PDF downloads of all 1383 LitCharts literature … Caryl Churchill at the Royal Court 6. Lady Nijo gets off this line: “I’m not a cheerful person, Marlene. “Buckinghamshire” is a difficult, fervent, political play, set in England in the mid-1600s, and it’s about a time when a new kind of governance seemed possible. By Caryl Churchill BACKGROUND PACK CONTENTS 1. 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