The Skriker
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.’

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

Independent on Sunday
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:

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

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