Far Away podcast: Caryl Churchill’s work and legacy, episode 2

The Donmar Warehouse Podcast

Fiona Mountford hosts a discussion with director Lyndsey Turner and playwrights Juliet Gilkes Romero and Lucy Kirkwood exploring the impact Caryl Churchill’s work has had on their practice. Juliet Gilkes Romero is a playwright and journalist. She has reported for the BBC from countries including Ethiopia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As a playwright her work includes Day of the Living which played at The Other Place as part of the RSC’s Mischief Festival in 2018 and At the Gates of Gaza, for which she won the Writers’ Guild Best Play Award in 2009. Juliet’s most recent work includes the play The Whip which premiered at the RSC last year. She also worked on BBC 4’s 2019 monologue series Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle. Lucy Kirkwood is a playwright and screenwriter. Her most recent plays include The Welkin and Mosquitos, which both premiered at the National Theatre, The Children, which premiered at the Royal Court, Chimerica which premiered at the Almeida before transferring to the West End and winning the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards for Best New Play. Lucy won the inaugural Berlin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013. Lyndsey Turner is a theatre director. Her work at the Donmar includes Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Fathers and Sons, Faith Healer and Aristocrats. Her other theatre credits include Top Girls, Saint George and the Dragon, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Edgar and Annabel, There is a War at the National Theatre, Girls and Boys at the Royal Court, Tipping The Velvet at Lyric Hammersmith, Hamlet at the Barbican and Chimerica at the Almeida and in the West End.