Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill | Resources

Cloud Nine Further Reading

Betsko, Kathleen, and Rachel Koenig, Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights, William Morrow, 1987, pp. 75-84.

In this interview, Churchill talks about her work, including Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Fen, and other plays.

Gray, Francis, "Mirrors of Utopia: Caryl Churchill and Joint Stock," in British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, St. Martin's, 1993, pp. 47-59.

Gray examines the far-reaching consequences of the plays that emerged from Churchill's work with the Joint Stock Company, which added a political dimension to her work. He includes an analysis of Cloud Nine.

Itzin, Catherine, Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain since 1968, Eyre Methuen, 1980.

This is a year-by-year account of the development of what Itzen calls the theater of political change from 1968 to 1978. She includes sections on Churchill and the important women's companies...
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