Caryl Churchill

Born 1938. British dramatist. Probably one of the most important contemporary ones.

Churchill's work covers many grounds. In the 1970s and 1980s, people saw her mainly as feminist-socialist playwright. Plays like Cloud Nine (1979) or Top Girls (1982) deal with gender politics and the connection between gender and the economy. But there are already plays such as Serious Money (1987) - dealing with stockbrokers and their ruthless Thatcherite greed - that do not fit the label 'feminist'.

In the 1990s, the style of the plays develops from more or less Brechtian to postdramatic. Topics range from totalitarianism and post-humanism in Far Away (2000), to cloning and identity in A Number (2002).

Churchill does not like giving interviews and does not attend theatre conferences. She also does not have a homepage.