How does Caryl Churchill affect the acting and production process through her script writing
Caryl Churchill has furthered feminist performance theory, in the last twenty years,
and broadened traditional views of gender roles through her script writing. For
example, her plays Cloud Nine and Top Girls defy traditional convention, with Cloud
Nine’s cross-gender casting and Top Girl’s pro-Thatcherite ethos as its foundation.
Churchill has affected the acting and production process in the way she has written
her scripts, such as the mentioned pieces, and the way in which theatre is performed.
“Her work is heavily influenced by the practices of experimental
and physical theatre: not one to make it easy for an audience, she
prefers to tell a tale in a challenging, sometimes meandering way.”
The language in Far Away appears very normal within the context of the piece,
though the subject of the book is something that most audiences would either not
understand or be disgusted by.
“… and in fact I killed two cats and a child under five so it
wasn’t that different from a mission.” – Joan
Churchill’s script, for Far Away, can be seen to turn our present day society into a
collection of barbarous individuals, sparing no exception to the animal kingdom and
Mother Nature. One could see this as Churchill’s own portrayal of the War of the Worlds. Joan shows concern regarding where the loyalties of the nearby river lies.
This could be seen as quite an absurd gesture, however falls into place within the
context of the piece and the society in which the characters are living in. Everything
on planet Earth is at war with one another. Churchill’s post modern script can be seen
to affect the acting and production process by the way in which it transforms the
actors into characters, that are unrelated to present day society, who far more in touch
with their primordial instinct of ‘survival of the fittest’ in this unimaginable war.
“I’ve shot cattle and children in Ethiopia. I’ve gassed mixed troops
of Spanish, computer programmers and dogs. I’ve torn starlings apart with
my bare hands… I could go on all day doing that, it was better than sex.”
- Todd.
The characters within Churchill’s script appear almost quite normal at the
beginning, in regards to the very start of the play where the initial convers...
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Though this was done in a more light-hearted spirit without the solemn tones that
hang about Top Girls. This can be seen to be the way in which Churchill’s attention to
current affairs in plays such as Top Girls and After Dinner Joke have affected the
acting and production process.
Caryl Churchill can be seen to have affected the acting and production process of
today’s theatre in many different ways through her script writing. The ‘chilling
vision’ of the future in Far Away pushes the actors into a new world, a new approach
to their character studies. Top Girls, a reflection of Thatcherite Britain in the late
seventies and eighties, takes the actors back to a milestone for the women population
of Britain. After Dinner Joke, another reflection of the fight for Third World
awareness and the fight against poverty and famine in the late seventies that would
lead to such projects as Band Aid. This paper has seen how these particular scripts
have affected the acting process, by pushing actors to achieve new feats, and the
production process, by the way in which a play is staged and cast.
He showed real beneficial points of production which I agreed how production could change the population especially changing the variety of working, but I criticized on the disadvantages of mass production he mentioned. This is because one company could offer more money to their people which having money is the aim of most of us, so when a place offer money, it has more beneficial rather than disadvantages. However, Churchill described the main differences of WWI and previous wars which were significant points because it is true that a lot of damages were caused in WWI that destroyed most people’s lives, and the cause of the wars is not indicated in any places. Also, it told the way of how Generals and armies are not heroes which I precisely disagree his point because people fight for their families and protect them from enemies. That’s why they need to fight and are seen as heroes but not heroes of their country, heroes of their family. In addition, he also described future wars which WWI had recently ended in his time, but he predicted to have another war which will be much cruel. It was true because WWII happened and caused more damages to the world; many women and children died with it. This was an extraordinary prediction because how someone can predict the future and become reality? However, as he mentioned peace was in people’s heart and was more important than having wars as
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Churchill, Winston S., M.P. “Churchill as War Leader: Lessons for the Future.” Address to the International Churchill Society. The Churchill Center. Online. Nov. 7., 2002. www.winstonchurchill.org
Sandys, Celia. The Young Churchill: The Early Years of Winston Churchill. United States of America: Dutton, 1995.
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