This Is a Chair
This Is a Chair by Caryl Churchill, published by Theatre Communications Group in October 1999, is an experimental short play consisting of 64 pages. The work presents an intimate revue that explores the increasing surreality of modern life through a series of brief scenes. Each scene is introduced by a news bulletin that addresses significant topical issues, such as the War in Bosnia and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, juxtaposing serious themes with seemingly unrelated performances.
Readers will find that the play creates a haunting impression of urban alienation and self-obsession, reflecting pre-millennial tension. The structure of the piece, with its unique blend of news and drama, invites contemplation on the disconnection between reality and perception. This edition offers a glimpse into Churchill’s innovative approach to dramatic form, making it a notable entry in British and Irish drama.
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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
Puts one in mid of the painter Magritte…Each brief scene is preceded by doomy, tabloid television ‘news music’, and a graphic announcing some heavy topical subject – The War in Bosnia, for instance, or the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Then the performers… play a scene that has nothing to do with its title…The piece creates a haunting impression of urban alienation, self-obsession and pre-millennial tension” Daily Telegraph
This is a Chair is an experimental short play by Caryl Churchill in which heavy topical news bulletins are each followed by a scene that has nothing to do with the news announcement. This one-act play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the 1997 London International Festival of Theatre.
Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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