Lives of the Great Poisoners

Cast: 4f 5m (incl. dancers, singers and actors) minimum

Staging: Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 45 pages ISBN: 9781780014326Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991

Lives of the Great Poisoners

By Caryl Churchill

Ebook £8.99£7.19

A multidisciplinary theatre piece about the most infamous poisoners in history, written by Caryl Churchill in collaboration with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink. 

Lives of the Great Poisoners combines elements of text, dance and song to tell the stories of famous killers from Medea to Dr Crippen.

It was first performed at the Arnolfini, Bristol, in February 1991 in a production by Second Stride, the performance collective co-founded by Ian Spink, Siobhan Davies and Richard Alston.

Lives of the Great Poisoners is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

Cast: 4f 5m (incl. dancers, singers and actors) minimum

Staging:Flexible staging

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,45 pages ISBN: 9781780014326Publication Date:
20 Oct 2014
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by Caryl Churchill:

Escaped Alone
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Ding Dong the Wicked
Caryl Churchill Plays: Four
Far Away
A Number
Caryl Churchill: Shorts
What If If Only
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
Mad Forest
Bliss
A Dream Play
Traps
War and Peace Gaza Piece
This is a Chair
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
Pigs and Dogs
Seven Jewish Children
The Skriker
Beautiful Eyes
Thyestes
Icecream
The Judge's Wife
Air
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Cloud Nine
Hotel
Hot Fudge
Abortive
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
Tickets are Now On Sale
Blue Heart
Three More Sleepless Nights
Love and Information
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
Here We Go
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Three Short Plays
A Mouthful of Birds
Lovesick
Seagulls
The After-Dinner Joke

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