This is a Chair
- Short Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 8M, 7F
- ISBN: 9781854593443
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
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Description
- Short Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Flexible Staging
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
A play that is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.
Caryl Churchill's This is a Chair was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre at the Duke of York’s, London, on 25 June 1997 as part of the London International Festival of Theatre.
REVIEWS:
A play that is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.
Caryl Churchill's This is a Chair was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre at the Duke of York’s, London, on 25 June 1997 as part of the London International Festival of Theatre.
REVIEWS:
"Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life."
The Guardian
"Creates a haunting impression of urban alienation, self-obsession and pre-millennial tension."
Daily Telegraph
Premiere Production:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 1997.
Characters
- Casting: 8M, 7F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
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