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Skriker, The

  • Caryl Churchill
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Fantasy/Adventure
  • 7M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9781854592750

"Long before that, long before England was an idea, a country of snow and wolves where trees sang and birds talked and people knew we mattered."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Fantasy/Adventure

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.

Caryl Churchill's play The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994.
REVIEWS:

"Unwholesome, hypnotic and born in the dark... spellbinding."

 Independent on Sunday

Premiere Production: National Theatre, London, 1994.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

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An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.

Caryl Churchill's play The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994.

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