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Caryl Churchill

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Caryl Lesley Churchill, born in 1938, is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power through non-naturalistic techniques and an exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works including Cloud 9, Top Girls and Serious Money, she was named the greatest living playwright by six of twenty writers polled by The Village Voice in 2011. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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United Kingdom

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    known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes
  • Article text
    Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), A Number (2002), and Love and Information (2012), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.
  • In Group: British and Irish Dramatists, Lead
    Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) 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.
  • Practices: Theatre, lead paragraph
    Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) 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. Celebrat
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