This is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays)
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This is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays)

Caryl Churchill

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This is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays)

Caryl Churchill

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A series of surreal sketches, each prefaced by a doom-laden tabloid style headline, This Is A Chair is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.

'Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life' - Guardian

'creates a haunting impression of urban alienation, self-obsession and pre-millennial tension' - Daily Telegraph

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Year
2014
ISBN
9781780014340
Subtopic
Drama
THIS IS A CHAIR
The War in Bosnia
JULIAN is waiting in a London street holding a bunch of flowers.
MARY arrives.
MARY
Iā€™m so sorry.
JULIAN
Thatā€™s all right, donā€™t worry.
MARY
Have you been here ages?
JULIAN
I got you these.
MARY
Theyā€™re beautiful.
JULIAN
I donā€™t know what you like.
MARY
Thank you very much.
JULIAN
I like orange and blue together, I donā€™t know if you do, I thought of roses but I think roses are a bit dull, I donā€™t like pink and red very much as colours, I donā€™t mind yellow but I thought these.
MARY
Listen, Iā€™m afraid thereā€™s a problem.
JULIAN
Yes.
MARY
Iā€™ve made a stupid mistake.
JULIAN
Never mind.
MARY
No but Iā€™ve made two different arrangements for the same evening, Iā€™ve doublebooked myself, I donā€™t know how I can be so stupid.
JULIAN
So you have to make a phonecall or . . . ?
MARY
No, itā€™s really awful, what I have to do is jump in a cab and go whizzing off. Because I have to be there by half past seven.
JULIAN
Something starts at half past seven?
MARY
Yes and I couldnā€™t reach the other person and anyway the tickets and . . .
JULIAN
Donā€™t worry.
MARY
It is a concert I particularly . . .
JULIAN
Yes of course. Weā€™d better look for a cab.
MARY
It was the arrangement I made first you see and somehow it slipped my mind and I thought we might have time for a drink anyway but then I was late finishing work and there was a hold-up on the tube it stopped in the tunnel for about five minutes people were starting to get nervous you could see from the way they kept on reading or just staring into space but deliberately because they were getting nervo...

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APA 6 Citation

Churchill, C. (2014). This is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays) ([edition unavailable]). Nick Hern Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1420301/this-is-a-chair-nhb-modern-plays-pdf (Original work published 2014)

Chicago Citation

Churchill, Caryl. (2014) 2014. This Is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays). [Edition unavailable]. Nick Hern Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/1420301/this-is-a-chair-nhb-modern-plays-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Churchill, C. (2014) This is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays). [edition unavailable]. Nick Hern Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1420301/this-is-a-chair-nhb-modern-plays-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Churchill, Caryl. This Is a Chair (NHB Modern Plays). [edition unavailable]. Nick Hern Books, 2014. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.