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Trafalgar Studios, Scoop, both of London
Look for Caryl Churchill in the 1996 edition of Oxford 's Concise Companion to the Theatre and you 'll find them. But just barely. It 's not documented separately, but under the Royal Court, just before a paragraph about "amenities" and immediately after a list of Barker and bonds and Wesker and Osborne and Hamptons - where all of those individual items.
The new Oxford
shows how untrue this is. Of course the play is about females. First staged (by Stafford-Clark) in 1982, when Margaret Thatcher was in full roar, it examines the cost of having power, and the cost of powerlessness; what women have given up for professional success and what they have given up for domesticity. But there's nothing narrow about this: it lets in as much of the emotional, intellectual and economic world as David Mamet's macho-dramas. It simply assumes - this is its importance - that in talking about women it will have something to say to everyone.
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