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Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill
BornCaryl Lesley Churchill
(1938-09-03) 3 September 1938 (age 86)
Finsbury, London, England
OccupationPlaywright
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Notable works
Spouse
David Harter
(m. 1961; died 2021)
Children3

Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938)[1] is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.[2] Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), and A Number (2002), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage".[3] In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.[4]

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  2. ^ Caryl Churchill profile, Encyclopædia Britannica; accessed 26 January 2018.
  3. ^ Woodhead, Cameron (17 June 2015). "Love and Information review: fresh work captures the zeitgeist". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Who Is the Greatest Living Playwright? | The Village Voice". The Village Voice. 2 November 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2020.

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