Cloud 9 / by Caryl Churchill.Cloud 9 / by Caryl Churchill.
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Titre
Cloud 9 / by Caryl Churchill.
Éditeur
Description
ix, 111 p. ; 22 cm.
Sommaire
Churchill’s wickedly comic and compassionate study of sexual politics glimpses the relationships of a family and their lovers, with an interval of twenty-five years of their lives, and around a hundred years of history.Highlighting the parallels of sexual and colonial oppression, the first act is set in a British colony in Africa in Victorian times. Clive is the traditional colonial patriarch, proud of his perfectly domesticated wife and black servant (‘played by a man’ and ‘played by a white’ respectively), and striving conscientiously to ensure his son and daughter play with gender appropriate toys. But furtive adultery and secret homosexuality threaten to subvert the moral order of the household.The second act finds some of the same characters living in 1979, twenty-five years older and played by different actors, finding new liberations in bisexuality and polyamory, but finding new anxieties about gender and fulfilment. The intricacies of these relationships and the play’s doubling create a complex and moving account of the multiplicity of individual sexualities.Cloud Nine was first performed in 1979 at the Dartington College of Arts, before touring and transferring to London.
Production
Coproduction with Joint Stock.
2 acts ; 2 sets ; 4m, 3w.
First public performance : Royal Court Theatre, on August 30, 1980, London (England).
Director : Max Stafford-Clark.
Sujets
Caractéristiques
Women
Cote
D C561c 1983
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