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Ice Cream with Hot Fudge

Collection / Anthology, Dramatic Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Two satirical one-acts by Caryl Churchill

Ice Cream with Hot Fudge

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    3w, 3m

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Summary

Two plays by Caryl Churchill in one volume which played as a double bill. In Ice Cream, Americans James and Vera travel to England to find James's relatives. They locate third cousins who are decidedly low life and become entangled in a murder. In the powerful vignettes of Hot Fudge, the competitive games of various professionals and their spouses present an amoral world where money is all and lies are the only truth.

Requires doubling.

Media

"Terse and quite funny." - Spectator

"Highly comic...Works like a short, sharp shock: an acidly entertaining statement about mutual cultural incomprehension." - Guardian

"An amusing, adroit, grotesque parable." - Evening Standard

"Very funny." - The New York Times

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $125 per performance
    $75 per play individually

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Authors

Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sund ...

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