Royal Court season to feature three new plays from Caryl Churchill

Zoe Paskett1 May 2019

Three world premieres by Caryl Churchill will lead the Royal Court’s next year of work, announced today.

Glass, Kill and Bluebeard tell stories of a girl made of glass, gods and murders and a serial killer’s friend, all directed by James Macdonald, who worked on Churchill’s last play Escaped Alone at the theatre.

The new season of "incredibly personal plays", which runs from September to August next year, will also include works by Tim Crouch, Sabrina Mahfouz, Lemn Sissay and Ed Thomas.

Artistic director Vicky Featherstone directs three of the plays: A semi-autobiographical story by Ed Thomas, On Bear Ridge, which tells a tale of the places we leave behind and our unreliable memories, Alistair McDowell's The Glow, a supernatural play about the obsessive Victorian world of spiritualism, and EV Crowe's Shoe Lady, an expressionistic piece about a woman who has lost her shoe.

Experimental theatre-maker Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation combines illustrated text and stage action to create an interactive play in which the actors and audience read together.

In A History of Water in the Middle East, Sabrina Mahfouz discusses British presence in that area of the world, both past and present, while Sami Ibrahim's two Palestinians go dogging takes place in 2024 when a couple are about to have sex in a field on a contested piece of land.

A group of theatre-makers come together for Is In Our Blood - The Song Project. Conceived by singer-songwriter and performer Wende and Chloe Lamford and created together with Isobel Waller-Bridge and Imogen Knight, the words have been written by EV Crowe, Sabrina Mahfouz, Somalia Seaton, Stef Smith and Debris Stevenson.

Al Smith’s Rare Earth Mettle sees the meeting of a doctor with a plan to save the NHS and a Silicon Valley billionaire with a radical plan to halt climate change, and poet Lemn Sissay will be in conversation about his new book My Name is Why in September.

Debris Stevenson’s acclaimed coming of age story Poet in Da Corner, which combines grime, spoken word and dance, will return for a limited run and a UK tour.

The season also includes Open Court: Climate Emergency, a season of work taking place all over the building in March 2020, written in response to the climate crisis.

For the full season rundown, head to royalcourttheatre.com

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