Owners (play)
Owners is a 1972 play by British playwright Caryl Churchill.[1] It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre's Theatre Upstairs.[2] The Royal Court production was directed by Nicholas Wright.[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 | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Caryl Churchill |
| Date premiered | 6 December 1972 |
| Place premiered | Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London |
| Original language | English |
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
- Gold, Sylviane (November 7, 2013). "The Implications of Ownership: A Review of 'Owners,' at Yale Repertory Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- Caryl Churchill Plays 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine. Bloomsbury Academic. 1985. ISBN 9780413566706. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- Mark Ravenhill (3 September 2008). "She made us raise our game". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- "Critic's pick: Caryl Churchill's 'Owners'". San Francisco Chronicle. May 9, 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- Minor, E. Kyle (2013-10-31). "Caryl Churchill's 'Owners' at Yale Rep expends its capital before the play's conclusion". New Haven Register. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- Gold, Sylviane (2013-11-07). "The Implications of Ownership". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-18.