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Blue Heart

English

By (author): Caryl Churchill

Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UKs leading playwrights.

Hearts Desire sees a family awaiting their daughters return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it keeps veering off in unexpected and ridiculous directions.

Blue Kettle tells the story of conman Derek and the five women he misleads into believing he is their biological son. Try as he might, Dereks plans are scuppered as the play is invaded by a virus.

In Caryl Churchills ever-inventive style, the two plays in Blue Heart pull apart language and structure in a way that is theatrically remarkable and fast paced, in a stirring yet truthful exploration of family and relationships.

Blue Heart was first performed at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, in August 1997 in a touring co-production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre.

This edition was published alongside the first major revival of Blue Heart, nearly twenty years after its premiere, in a co-production by the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, and Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol, in 2016.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781848426009

About Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill is a leading playwright who has written widely for the stage television and radio. Her stage plays include: Owners (Royal Court Theatre London 1972); Objections to Sex and Violence (Royal Court 1975); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint Stock 1976); Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment 1976); Traps (Royal Court 1977); Cloud Nine (Joint Stock 1979); Three More Sleepless Nights (Soho Poly and Royal Court 1980); Top Girls (Royal Court 1982); Fen (Joint Stock 1983); Softcops (RSC 1984); A Mouthful of Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock 1986); Serious Money (Royal Court and Wyndham's London then Public Theater New York 1987); Icecream (Royal Court 1989); Mad Forest (Central School of Speech and Drama then Royal Court 1990); Lives of the Great Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride 1991); The Skriker (Royal National Theatre 1994); Thyestes translated from Seneca (Royal Court 1994); Hotel with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink (Second Stride 1997); This is a Chair (Royal Court 1997); Blue Heart (Joint Stock 1997); Far Away (Royal Court 2000 and Albery London 2001 then New York Theatre Workshop 2002); A Number (Royal Court 2002 then New York Theatre Workshop 2004); A Dream Play after Strindberg (Royal National Theatre 2005); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Royal Court 2006 then Public Theater New York 2008); Bliss translated from Olivier Choinière (Royal Court 2008); Seven Jewish Children a play for Gaza (Royal Court 2009); Love and Information (Royal Court 2012); Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court 2012); Here We Go (National Theatre 2015); Escaped Alone (Royal Court 2016) Pigs and Dogs (Royal Court 2016) Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. (Royal Court 2019) and What If If Only (Royal Court 2021).

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