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Cambridge companion to Caryl Churchill

The Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill’s collaborations, influences and performance innovations. The essays group the major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecology, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical and historical contexts. Overall the collection creates a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years and provides innovative scholarly insights into Churchill’s poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.

My own solo contribution ‘On Collaboration’ offers new reflections on the practice of Churchill’s theatre by examining her drama from the ‘inside-out’ perspectives of process. Work on this essay and for the collection overall falls within my on-going and extensive research into Churchill’s theatre, as evidenced by my two, related REF article submissions and, out with the exercise, an additional 10,000 word chapter for the third edition of Caryl Churchill (Northcote House, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-7463-1208-7 pp.174)