Preface and acknowledgements: The theatre of Caryl Churchill -- Churchhill's landscapes: Top Girls ; The Skriker ; Far Away -- Derivatives; or capitalism and the theatre: Owners ; Serious Money: A City Comedy ; A Dream Play -- Identity and the body: Cloud Nine ; Icecream (with or without Hot Fudge) ; A Number -- The aesthetics and politics of collaboration: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire ; Fen ; Mad Forest: A Play from Romania -- Performance and/as theatre: Traps ; Blue Heart ; Love and Information -- Other critical perspectives: The 'Picasso' of modern British playwrights by Elaine Aston ; 'The times' of Caryl Churchill's theatre by Siân Adiseshiah -- Epilogue: Exit the author.