Cloud Nine
Almeida Theatre, London from 25th October to 8th December 2007
Set in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Caryl
Churchill’s landmark play Cloud Nine is about relationships – between women and
men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers,
Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria and
sex.
Thea Sharrock directs Cloud Nine. She has most recently
directed Peter Shaffer’s Equus at the Gielgud Theatre. Her other theatre credits include A
Voyage Round My Father which transferred from the Donmar Warehouse to Wyndham's
Theatre and Heroes also at Wyndham’s Theatre, as well as Private
Lives, Don Juan and Blithe Spirit for Bath Theatre Royal and Tejas
Verdes for The Gate where she was Artistic Director.
Thea Sharrock previously directed Caryl
Churchill’s Top Girls at Battersea Arts Centre as the recipient of the James Menzies-Kitchin
Memorial Trust’s
Young Director of the Year Award 2000.
Multi award-winning Caryl Churchill wrote her first stage
play, Owners, in 1972. For the Royal Court, where she was Resident
Dramatist, her many plays include Drunk Enough to Say
I Love You?, A Number, Far Away, Serious Money, Blue Heart, This is a Chair and Top
Girls. Her
other plays include Fen, A Mouthful of Birds, A Dream
Play and The Skriker. Churchill
has also written for television and radio.
For all additional information and booking details visit
the official web site: www.almeida.co.uk
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