The week in theatre: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; My Beautiful Laundrette – review

Royal Court, London; Curve, Leicester
Caryl Churchill conjures four short, sharp, unconnected plays that add up to one remarkable whole. And a new spin on an 80s film classic

What a rapt, intricate and disturbing evening. Four short dramas – the longest only an hour – by the un-United Kingdom’s most fascinating playwright, staged with delicacy and dash by her long-time collaborator.

Caryl Churchill is famous for capturing new subjects for the stage in plays that are utterly unpredictable in form; plays that not only never plough the same furrow but leap each time into a new field. City traders; feminism under Margaret Thatcher; cloning. Verse drama; a two-hander in which one man plays three characters; a play made out of a multitude of flickering scenes. Back-garden chat swerving into apocalypse.

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