Innovative Dramatic Technique of Caryl Churchill in her plays The Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Top Girls and Cloud Nine and Vinegar Tom

Abstract

Caryl Churchill created new kind of drama after taking reins of dramatic activity at the Royal Court Theatre. She affected drama by effecting feminine point of view in the dramatic activity and by framing drama of women’s choices. She does not care for the traditional patterns and norms of drama. She makes her own drama in which women’s participation dominates. She develops her own artistic designs in the dramatic activity which is infested with innovations of her own. She designs speeches exclusively suited the female kind with her autonomy in her thoughts and actions. She goes to the extent of devising an exclusive feminine society with a female voice of economic independence. She developed situations in which females took the leading role and sometimes all characters were played by females. Sometime, she develops the technique of time shift in order to show the contrast between the past and the present- the same characters behaving in the seventeenth century and then in the nineteenth century. The innovations making impact on the audience are worth to draw attention of a researcher for a better assessment of Caryl Churchill’s dramatic activity.