The Skriker of English legend is ‘a shapeshifter and death portent, ancient and damaged’. In the play we follow its search for love and revenge, as it pursues two young women to London, changing its shape at every new encounter. An extraordinary combination of English folk tales and modern urban life.
Click here to read Daniel Craig, Richard Eyre, David Hare and Harriet Walter’s thoughts on Caryl Churchill.
For more information on Caryl and her formative influence on modern drama read this article in the Guardian by one of this generations foremost dramatists (and the director of our Light Shining in Buckinghamshire reading) Mark Ravenhill.
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