Light Shining in Buckinghamshire - Softcover

"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant

"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian

"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian

"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times




"Even more than an immediately impressive exercise in historical drama, the play deals in the rawness of life during the Civil War and the crazy mixture of ideals and half truths which led a group of free-loving pantheistic communists to set their standard against the standard of false revolution of Cromwell's parliamentarians." - Steve Grant

"The play has an austere eloquence that precisely matches its subject." - The Guardian

"Remarkable" - Michael Billington, The Guardian

"A play that commands one's attention and that can lead to enlightenment." - Mel Gussow, New York Times

CARYL CHURCHILL's plays include "Cloud Nine" (revived in 2007 to huge acclaim at the Almeida, London), "Top Girls", "Serious Money", "The Skriker", "Blue Heart", "Far Away" and "A Number". Most are published by NHB. Caryl Churchill (1938-) is probably the most respected woman dramatist in the English-speaking world. She is the author of some twenty plays including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away and A Number, seen and admired all over the world.