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A review by ed_moore
This Is a Chair by Caryl Churchill
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.25
Caryl’s Churchill’s play ‘This is a Chair’ was so short I am debating even logging and reviewing it to count as a book I have read, though here I am writing a review so I suppose debate has decided itself. It was just a series of scenes in different settings, with different characters and different events that are no way related, I would consider it to trump Cavendish’s ‘The Blazing World’ as the weirdest piece of literature I have read, but might need longer for it to sink in to decide such an acclimation. That being said it had so little content, just abstract depictions of the mundane each titled with a juxtaposing historical event. I don’t have any definitive ideas of a meaning myself so googled some interpretations that quote it to be “personal versus political affairs” and to be about “the surreal nature of modern life” but the play is so short and broken apart that none of these ideas I can claim are explored in enough depth to give any credit to. I did however like the absence of substance in the final scene, and against the title of the scene the potential symbolism of this. My lecture on this one is sure to be an interesting one.