Word: caryl
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...favorite gargoyle of the London theater's left wing. In the suburban pubs and fringe theaters that form London's equivalent of off-Broadway, playwrights have been declaiming for months against Thatcherism and for the nuclear freeze. Two provocative British plays that recently made it to Manhattan, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Steven Berkoff s Greek, include oblique denunciations of the Tory leader. A new West End musical, the earnest, tuneful Blood Brothers (book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell), charts the plight of twin boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty...
...Caryl Churchill
Currently at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, Fen is the third of British Playwright Caryl Churchill's plays to be presented in New York. "Infinitely distantly" related to Winston, Churchill, 44, is a no-nonsense feminist whose convictions are firm without being strident. She is the mother of three boys, ages 20, 18 and 13, and her barrister husband tended them for stretches so that she could write. She possesses a startling imagination, and her way with words ranges from the stark to the lyrical...
...opening scene of Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit Cloud Nine), is the strangest of dinner parties; the hostess is alive, but all the guests are dead. Marlene (Gwen Taylor) is a smart, hard-nosed career woman who is celebrating her promotion to managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency at a London restaurant called La Prima Donna. She has invited a few prima donnas, or "top girls," of past centuries to celebrate with...
...Caryl Chessman, executed...