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Cloud Nine, Paperback / softback Book

Cloud Nine Paperback / softback

Part of the Acting Edition S. series

Paperback / softback

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Written for Joint Stock, this theatre company's workshop for the play was "sexual politics", thus giving Caryl Churchill the idea for her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression.

Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London.

Much interplay is made of gender and colour: for example, Clive, the white settler, has a black servant, Joshua, who is played by a white because he wants to be what the whites want him to be.

Hilarious and thought-provoking.

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