Explore the groundbreaking work of Caryl Churchill, a celebrated playwright whose fiercely imaginative dramas confront contemporary anxieties and terrors. The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill offers fresh scholarship on her internationally performed and studied plays. This essential guide delves into major works, connecting them to vital social issues like ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, and the nature of selfhood. Discover Churchill’s theatrical innovations, her significant collaborations, and her profound influence on emerging playwrights. Through close readings within their historical and theoretical contexts, this companion highlights Churchill’s career-long experimentation, poetic precision, dark wit, and inexhaustible creativity, solidifying her impact on modern theatre.