Cloud Nine - A Play

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.