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Caryl Churchill

Writing

Known For

Play for Tomorrow
7.0

Play for Tomorrow is a British television anthology science fiction series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 in 1982. It spun off from the anthology drama series Play for Today after the success of The Flipside of Dominick Hide on that strand. Each of the six episodes paints a vision of life in a future year, near the end of the 20th Century or at the beginning of the 21st.

Play for Tomorrow

1982
Top Girls
N/A

Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

Top Girls

1991
The After Dinner Joke
7.5

A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.

The After Dinner Joke

1978
Crimes
N/A

2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.

Crimes

1982
Seven Jewish Children
N/A

Based on the play by Caryl Churchill, this film shows the Jewish journey from Russia in 1903 to Palestine in 2009. It humanizes and visualizes the progression from oppressed to oppressors whilst imploring it's audience for open conversation and empathy.

Seven Jewish Children

2025
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
N/A

Now hiring: top girls wanted for prestige positions. Must be self-motivated go-getters with an appetite for success. No timewasters. Marlene is the first woman to head the Top Girls employment agency. But she has no plans to stop there. With Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of optimism consuming the country, Marlene knows that the future belongs to women like her.

National Theatre Live: Top Girls

2019
The Legion Hall Bombing
9.0

The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.

The Legion Hall Bombing

1978
A Number
5.0

A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.

A Number

2008