Because You're Worth It
✮✮✮✮ Caryl Churchill's Top Girls Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Imara Savage Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls exposes our discomfort with stories that talk of societal problems, without the service of convenient villains. We have a hard time thinking about structures that have proven themselves unacceptable, without being able to place blame on individuals or archetypes. Churchill encourages us instead to examine the ways in which those systems insist on our acquiesce
A Woman's Work is Never Done
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Kip Williams Betty takes a long time to grow up. In fact, it is centuries before she becomes her own woman. In Act I, she lives in Victorian era Africa, having moved from Britain with her husband, a “colonial administrator”. In Act II, we find that not only has she advanced in age, time itself has moved abruptly to the current day. Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine is about the way gender, with all
A Gorgeously Immersive Faerie Bacchanal
✮✮✮✮✮ Caryl Churchill's The Skriker Manchester International Festival | Manchester directed by Sarah Frankcom There's nothing new about tough fairies: Angela Carter's retellings are a punchy reminder that they used to be meant for adults, not children, while the vogue for dark stagings of the Grimm Tales has firmly reminded their audiences that the Cinderella's ugly sisters cut their own toes off, or that Rapunzel gave birth to illegitimate twins in the wildness. But Caryl Ch
Everybody's a Little Bit ADD
✮✮✮✮ Caryl Churchill's Love and Information Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Kip Williams Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information is a 90 minute play, composed entirely of very short sequences that look to be extracts from a wide range of stories running the gamut of genres in conventional theatre. Each independent bite-sized piece, no matter how small, provides enough for us to make sense of events taking place in the moment, but the scenes do no immediately relate
