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Caryl Churchill: Top Girls, The Skriker, Serious Money, A Number and More
- 13 BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales, Michael Gambon, Daniel Craig, Maxine Peake, Lesley Manville, Bertie Carvel, Tobias Menzies, Dinsdale Landen, Deborah Findlay, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
A collection of dramatisations and original radio plays by the award-winning playwright - plus bonus documentary
Caryl Churchill is one of Britain's most innovative and influential dramatists. Versatile and prolific, she has written over 50 plays for stage and screen and is renowned for her revolutionary theatrical techniques and themes of feminism, social politics and the abuse of power.
This box set brings together some of her best-known theatre plays, adapted for BBC radio with full casts. It opens with her landmark 1982 drama Top Girls, exploring the price women pay for success in a man's world. Serious Money satirises the corporate venality that followed the 1986 Big Bang; while The Skriker blends naturalism, horror and magical realism to tell a story of love, loss and revenge. Also included are A Number, a powerful look at human cloning and identity; Escaped Alone, a tale of four septuagenarian friends, afternoon tea and catastrophe; and Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, focussing on the millennial movements that erupted during the English Civil War in the 1640s.
Churchill also wrote a number of original plays specially for BBC radio in the 1960s and '70s, seven of which are included here: her first professional audio drama The Ants; Identical Twins; Abortive; Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen; Schreber's Nervous Illness; Perfect Happiness and Henry's Past.
Among the stellar cast in these superb dramas are Daniel Craig, Maxine Peake, Lesley Manville, Hattie Morahan, Michael Gambon, Tobias Menzies, Bertie Carvel, Deborah Findlay, Kenneth Haigh, Prunella Scales, Monica Dolan, Dinsdale Landen and Clive Merrison. Concluding our collection is a bonus edition of Meridian, taking an in-depth look at Churchill's extraordinary oeuvre.
NB: Contains strong language
Production credits
Written by Caryl Churchill
Text copyright © Caryl Churchill 1962 (The Ants), 1968 (Identical Twins), 1971 (Abortive, Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen), 1972 (Schreber's Nervous Illness, Henry's Past), 1973 (Perfect Happiness), 1976 (Light Shining in Buckinghamshire), 1982 (Top Girls), 1987 (Serious Money), 1994 (The Skriker), 2002 (A Number), 2016 (Escaped Alone)
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Content List
Top Girls
Serious Money
The Skriker
A Number
Escaped Alone
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
The Ants
Identical Twins
Abortive
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Perfect Happiness
Henry's Past
Meridian: Caryl Churchill
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- mr J. R. Jolley
- 29-01-24
A Masterclass In Language And Post-modernism
Some plays were, of course, better than others. The collection itself though shows us that theatre can be both literary and expressive all at once. Language is what gives all these works their uniqueness — the use of interruptions and such... These works are to be listened to as an exploration in both language as a spoken form and our ability as humans to selectively change it to suit our requirements. I enjoyed the collection and "Escaped Alone" is a worthy listen in itself because I can't imagine the complexities of acting it live, never mind for radio. Speaking of radio, the work "Identical Twins" is a worthy listen because the same actor had to time his recordings, one twin in the left ear, the other in the right, describing scenes from their perspective... In short, if you are of a literary persuasion and enjoy spoken language being used as a playground for emotional context and modern experimentation, try this collection.
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- 04-05-23
All 13 Plays Are Putrid
Sent back. After listening to ten minutes of each play we could not stand to listen to anymore. Not one is enjoyable. All 13 are putrid. Left me & my husband feeling cold.
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