id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9746 Caryl Churchill - Wikipedia .html text/html 4323 621 79 Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.[1] Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), and A Number (2002), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets of and innovators for the contemporary stage".[2] In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, five out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.[3] The Royal Court Theatre premiere of Pigs and Dogs received a positive review in The Stage[29] and moderately positive reviews in The Guardian,[30] The Observer,[31] and Evening Standard,[32] with the last newspaper's Henry Hitchings stating, "While the incantatory style isn't consistently engaging, this is a striking parade of views on a subject that merits more sustained treatment." Andrzej Lukowski of Time Out said in a three-star review that the play "makes its point effectively if tersely".[33] Mark Lawson of The Guardian praised Beautiful Eyes as a "sharp" comedy.[34] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9746.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9746.txt