Caryl Churchill

The Plays of Caryl Churchill | The Dramaturgy of an Idea in 'Seven Jewish Children'

Playwright Caryl Churchill uses narrative arc and story structure to incredible effect in exploring the dramaturgy of an idea in two of her plays "Love and Information" and "Seven Jewish Children".

I (Tom Nicholas) analyse these this incredibly controversial and political piece of theatre using Orson Scott Wells' MICE quotient and Christopher Vogler's Writer's Journey in order to see what we might learn in how to write our own plays.

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Betty from "Cloud 9" by Caryl Churchill : "One of the monologues I did in my BFA Acting thesis at Boston University."

"Far Away" by Caryl Churchill, directed by Sina Heiss.