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Comedy / Casting: 4m 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors

The time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies plays and novels. Only with a difference... Read Full Overview

Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.
The first act takes placei n Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes his ideals on his family... Read Full Overview

Written for Joint Stock, this theatre company's workshop for the play was "sexual politics", thus giving Caryl Churchill the idea for her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression. Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London. Much interplay... Read Full Overview

Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.The first act takes placei n Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes his ideals on his family... Read Full Overview

"Sharp comedy and a serious purpose are splendidly combined in Cloud 9 , Caryl Churchill's provocative and amusing study of sexual politics... It unlocks the imagination, liberates the mind, and leaves you weak with laughter." - Time Out "Audacious and savagely funny. Mesmerizing."... Read Full Overview