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Caryl Churchill’s plays are characterized by their stunning theatricality which the playwright marshals to critique social relations.1 Her sense of theatricality, aside from forging a theatrical style which accommodates a left-wing politic, often seems to be a reconsideration of conventional notions of theatricality. In the case of Cloud Nine and Fen, two plays which have strong realist elements, the appearance of ghosts demands that the audience reconsider theatrical realism with particular attention to the implications of its ideological investment in patriarchy.
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Wilson, A. (1988). Hauntings: Ghosts and the Limits of Realism in Cloud Nine and Fen by Caryl Churchill. In: Boireau, N. (eds) Drama on Drama. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25443-9_10
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