The Skriker

Cast: 8f 7m or more

Staging: Minimal set

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

Paperback, 52 pages ISBN: 9781854592750Publication Date:
17 Feb 1994
Size: 196mm x 128mm£11.99 £9.59You save £2.40 (20%)
Ebook, 52 pages ISBN: 9781780013589Publication Date:
15 Oct 2014
£11.99 £9.59You save £2.40 (20%)
First Staged:
National Theatre, London, 1994

The Skriker

By Caryl Churchill

Paperback £11.99£9.59

Ebook £11.99£9.59

An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

In a broken world, two girls meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter and death portent. She can be an old woman, a child, a young man. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.

Caryl Churchill's play The Skriker was originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 1994.

The Skriker is also available in the volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three.

‘Long before that, long before England was an idea, a country of snow and wolves where trees sang and birds talked and people knew we mattered.’

Press Quotes

'Unwholesome, hypnotic and born in the dark... spellbinding'

Independent on Sunday

Cast: 8f 7m or more

Staging:Minimal set

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

Paperback,52 pages ISBN: 9781854592750Publication Date:
17 Feb 1994
Size: 196mm x 128mm£11.99 £9.59You save £2.40 (20%)
Ebook,52 pages ISBN: 9781780013589Publication Date:
15 Oct 2014
£11.99 £9.59You save £2.40 (20%)

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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