Life and Politics Key Plays/productions 1: Sex, Capital and Empire – from Owners to Cloud Nine. Key Plays/productions 2: The Thatcher Years – Top Girls to Serious Money Selected Play/New Approaches: Linguistic Games, Dance and Music Key Productions: The Striker (National Theatre) Lives of the Great Poisoners (Second Stride) Key Productions: War and Dictatorship: Mad Forest, This is a Chair and Far Away Key Productions: Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama) Far Away (Royal Court) Key Productions: A Number Bibliography
Biography
Professor Mary Luckhurst is Chair of Modern Drama at the University of York and co-founder of York's new Department of Theatre, Film and Television. She has published extensively on modern drama and written the first cultural history of new play development: Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre for Cambridge University Press. Her directing career includes Churchill's Far Away and Mad Forest for the York Theatre Royal.
"This is the book about Caryl Churchill we've been waiting for. Mary Luckhurst does several things brilliantly. She relates Churchill's plays to the their cultural and political context, shows how their formal experimentation is dictated by ideas and analyzes their performance-history through the words of practitioners. I learned an amazing amount."
- Michael Billington, The Guardian
"This critical examination of some of Churchill's most significant works manages to distinguish itself from the dozens of other works on her. Its particular value lies in Luckhurst's interweaving theatre practitioners' voices (those of actors and directors) into the theoretical and historiographic discourse."
- CHOICE Reviews, K. Tancheva, Cornell University
