I Wrote a Thing (And I Read Some Others)

On Caryl Churchill, JD Vance, sobriety, sofas, and such like

“Caryl Churchill, among the fiercest and boldest of Britain’s modern playwrights, goes nearly as hard about identity in A Number as she’s gone in other plays about sociopolitical upheavals (Mad Forest and Far Away) and sexual politics (Cloud 9 and most famously Top Girls) — big-swing, big-think exercises all of them, none as interested in providing answ…