Owners
Written byCaryl Churchill
Date premiered6 December 1972 (1972-12-06)
Place premieredRoyal Court Theatre Upstairs, London
Original languageEnglish

Owners is a 1972 play by British playwright Caryl Churchill.[1] It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre's Theatre Upstairs in a production directed by Nicholas Wright.[2][3] The play is a satire of property rights about real estate and of the people who own real estate and those who live in rented accommodation.[4]

Owners was Churchill's first professionally produced stage play, and she has described the play as a turning-point in her career as a dramatist: "Since Owners I've worked almost entirely in the theatre. So my working life feels divided quite sharply into before and after 1972, and Owners was the first play of the second part."[2]

In New Haven Register, E. Kyle Minor described Owners as an "intermittently interesting and otherwise tedious" work that was written before Churchill had become a genius of theater.[5] Sylviane Gold of The New York Times stated that "she had yet to achieve the formal mastery that would make later plays like “Cloud Nine” and “Top Girls” instant modernist classics", but argued that Churchill's "acidic critique of capitalist freebooters and the culture that worships them as heroes carries even more resonance today than it did in 1972".[6]

References

  1. ↑ Gold, Sylviane (7 November 2013). "The Implications of Ownership: A Review of 'Owners,' at Yale Repertory Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  2. 1 2 Churchill, Caryl (2013). Churchill Plays: 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-413-56670-6. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Mark Ravenhill (3 September 2008). "She made us raise our game". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Critic's pick: Caryl Churchill's 'Owners'". San Francisco Chronicle. 9 May 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Minor, E. Kyle (31 October 2013). "Caryl Churchill's 'Owners' at Yale Rep expends its capital before the play's conclusion". New Haven Register. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Gold, Sylviane (7 November 2013). "The Implications of Ownership". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 March 2020.


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